10 Minute Guide to Word for Windows 95

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Formatting Your Document

This lesson introduces you to the concept of formatting (or changing the appearance of) your document and also tells you where to turn for information on specific kinds of formatting.

What is Formatting?

The term formatting refers to changes you make in your document's appearance. Whenever you underline a word, set a paragraph off with italics, display a list as a table, or change the page margins you are working with formatting. Formatting is an important part of many documents. An attractive and well-formatted document has a definite edge on clarity and impact over another document that may have the same content but is poorly formatted. Most of the remaining lessons in this book deal with formatting; this brief lesson serves as a general introduction.

How Is Formatting Applied?

There are two different methods for applying most of Word's formatting commands. The difference depends on whether you want to format text that already exists in the document, or text that you are about to type:

Where Do I Turn Next?

If it's possible, I recommend that you continue working through the book's lessons in order. If you need to find information on a particular formatting topic right away, you can refer to this list.

For information on... Please turn to...
Using fonts, underlining, boldface, and italics Lesson 11
Changing the page margins and line spacing Lesson 12
Using and setting tabs Lesson 13
Modifying text alignment Lesson 14
Adding page numbers, headers, and footers Lesson 17
Creating numbered and bulleted lists Lesson 22
Arranging text in columns Lesson 23
Using Word's automatic formatting Lesson 26
Putting data in tables Lessons 27


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