Microsoft Office7; Font, Font Size, Aligning, letter case and bullets

a)    Font (Calibri)

This is the format of the characters used in a document. To format the font of a word document means changing the appearance of the characters.

The following steps are use to format the font of a word document.

-       Make sure you are under the home menu or left click on the home menu.

-       Go to font and left click on the small arrow beside it ( a series of fonts are displayed below in alphabetical order)

-       Select the one which suit your purpose by left clicking on it.

b)    Font size

Here we are talking on how small or how large a character is displayed. This function is use to increase/decrease the physical appearance of a character

To change font size;

-       Under the home menu, go to Font Size and left click on the small arrow beside

-       Select a font size that suits your purpose by left clicking on it.

c)     Aligning part or whole document

To align a document or part of a document, we do the following;

Make sure you’re under the home menu

·        Go to paragraph

·        Select Align Text Left to align text to the left

·        Select Align Text Right to align text right

·        Select Center to centralize text

·        Select Justify to justify text.

To justify a text means to instruct the computer to automatically try to make the left and the right ends of all the lines to fall on the same line.

d)    Changing letter case.

This is to toggle letters between lower and upper case.

How to change letter case.

-       Under home menu go to Change Case

-       Left click on the small arrow beside.

-       Select Uppercase to change to capital letters.

-       Select Lowercase to change to small letters.

-       Select Sentence case to change into a sentence (i.e. first letter is capitalize).

-       Select Toggle Case to Use a mixture of capital and small letters.

-       Select Capitalize Each Word to make each word in a sentence to begin with a Capital letter.

e)     Assigning bullets: Bullets are use to present an outline or use to state points. To assign a bullet;

-       Go to the bullet function and click on it.

-       Select one of the bullets depending on your choice by clicking on it.

-       Click on define new bullet to use an object as a bullet which is not present in the default list.