Basic Text Formatting

Font, Font Size, and Font Color

You can find the font settings on the Home tab > Font group:

Format = process of changing the appearance of text and objects.

• Paragraph formatting = changing the way paragraphs look
• Character formatting = changing the way characters (letters or symbols) look

Font = the special shape of text. How the button looks:

• Consider this, this, this, this, and this.

Font size = the size of the text. How the buttons look: , (smaller), (larger font)

• Consider this (9 pts), this (12 pts), and this (18 pts).
• Points (also pts or pt) is the measurement unit of font sizes: about 1/72 inch in height.