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If you really want to get fancy with your text, apply a text effect. Text effects come in 15 styles, and you can create new styles or modify existing styles by adding an outline, shadow, reflection, or glow to your text. When adding outlines, you can choose the color, weight, and style of your outline.

If you have ever used a highlighting marker to highlight text in a book, you will be happy to know you can duplicate that effect by using the Text Highlight Color feature in Word. When you click the down-arrow next to the Text Highlight Color button, Word presents a choice of 15 colors you can

For added contrast, you can change the color of text to a theme color, standard color, or any other color. Theme colors are a set of colors for use throughout a document or set of documents. You can use them to give your documents a consistent look and feel. When you assign a theme color

In Word, you can change the color of text and objects. When you opt to change a color, Word presents you with a color gallery that has three categories: Theme Colors, Standard Colors, and More Colors. This section will provide you with an overview of color options. In the next section, you will learn how to

Font case determines whether the characters are capitalized. Generally, to capitalize, you hold down the Shift key while you press the letter you want to capitalize. If you got the case settings wrong as you typed, you can change the capitalization. Text can be set to the cases listed in the following table. Change Font

You can change the size of a font. For example, you might want to increase the size to make a portion of your document stand out or you might want to decrease the size so more words fit on a page. Fonts are measured in points. A point is 1/72 of an inch, which means

As you cut or copy, Word stores the information you have cut or copied on the Clipboard. Each time you cut or copy, the data you just cut or copied goes to the top of the Clipboard hierarchy and the previous data moves down one level. When you choose Paste, the item at the top

In Microsoft Word, you can copy text or objects from one area of a document and place the copied text or object anywhere in the same or another document. In other words, after you type information into a document, if you want to place the same information somewhere else, you do not have to retype

You can use the Cut feature to remove text or objects from a document. Then you can use the Paste feature to place the cut text or objects anywhere in the same or another document. In other words, you can move information from one place in a document to another place in the same or

A font is a collection of characters that all have the same basic design. Fonts are used to print text to various output devices and to display text on screen. When you begin a new Word document, you are using the default theme’s body font. You can change the font by clicking the down-arrow next