Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 4. Advanced Text Formatting

Advanced Text Formatting Techniques

Microsoft Word offers a number of formatting techniques that go beyond the basics discussed in Chapter 3:

• Reveal Formatting enables you to get information about the formatting applied to selected text.

• Format Painter enables you to copy font and paragraph formats from one selection to another.

• Styles enables you to define and apply named sets of formatting options for individual characters or paragraphs.

• Themes and the Style Gallery enable you to apply predefined sets of styles to a document.

• AutoFormat instructs Word to automatically format text you type.

This chapter covers these advanced formatting techniques and shows you how they can help you format your documents more quickly, ...