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Document Sections

A Word document can be divided into three four categories:

Document - A document contains one or more sections.

Sections - A section contains one or more paragraphs.

Paragraphs - A paragraph contains one or more characters, including a paragraph mark.

Characters - A characeter is a single letter or number. The paragraph mark is a character.

Each one of the these categories has specific formatting associated with it.

What is Character Formatting ?

This feature lets you stretch individual characters either horizontally or vertically. Large initial capitals (commonly known as “drop caps”) mean that the first letter of a word of a paragraph, formatted in capitals is dropped into the paragraph so that the first two or three line are pushed to one side.

Using the Format Painter

This button can be found on the Standard toolbar and can be used to quickly copy the formatting from one part of a document to another.

 Format Painter - This button copies formats from the selected cells, so they can be copied to other parts of the worksheet or workbook.

Fonts

All fonts are measured in points and 72 points is equivalent to 1 inch.

Font sizes can be between 1 and 1638 points.

Character Spacing

Sentence Case

Title Case

Toggle Case

Text Effects

Hidden Text

(Ctrl + Shift + 8) - Toggle

Show / Hide button on Standard Toolbar

Things to Remember