Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac: Visual QuickStart Guide

6. Text Formatting

In This Chapter

Character Formatting 110

Paragraph Formatting 112

Using Word Styles 123

In Chapter 5, you learned to apply document-level formatting, such as setting the page size, orientation, and margins. In this chapter, you’ll discover the many ways you can format the text in your documents. There are two types of formatting that can be applied to text: character and paragraph.

• Character formatting refers to the font, size, styles, and color applied to—and that only affects—selected text within a paragraph.

• Paragraph formatting concerns itself with formatting that affects entire paragraphs. In addition to setting a default font for the paragraph, formatting can include line spacing, space before and after the ...