Ms Word Lesson Five- Document Formating

Bolding, Italicizing, Underlining
These three formatting actions are used in making emphasis in a word document. When you create a document, you may want to emphasize particular words or phrases by bolding, italicizing and underlining. Also, certain grammatical constructions require that you bold , italic, underline. We shall learn how to bold , italic and underline texts using different methods.

How to Bold Texts Using the Dialogue box Launcher
To bold text using this method, do the following:
1. Highlight the text.
2. Click on the Home tab.
3. Click the dialogue box launcher in the font group. The font dialogue box appears.
4. Click Bold in the font style box- the effect of your action will be shown in the preview window. To remove the bold, click Regular.
5. Click OK to close the dialogue box.
6. Click any where in the text area to remove the highlighting. The selected text becomes bold.

Alternative-Bolding Text with the Ribbon
1. Highlight texts.
2. Click on the home tab
3. Click the bold button in the front group. At once the selected texts becomes bold.
4. Click any where in the text area to remove highlighting. To remove the bolding, you can highlight the text and click the bold button again.

Alternative- Bolding Text with Keys
1. Highlight the texts.
2. Press Ctrl + B (I.e. hold down the Ctrl key while pressing B)
Note: To remove the bolding, press Ctrl +N again. You can also remove the bolding by pressing Ctrl + Space bar.
3. Click any where in the text area to remove the highlighting. The selected text will become bold.

How to Italicize Texts with the Dialogue Box Launcher
1. Highlight the text to be italicized
2. Click on the Home tab.
3. Click the dialogue box launcher in the font group. The font dialogue box appears.
4. Click italic in the font Style box
5. Click OK to close the font dialogue box.
6. Click any where in the text area to remove the highlighting. The text will be italicized.

Alternative- Italicizing Text with the Ribbon
1. Highlight the text to be italicized.
2. Click on the Home tab.
3. Click the italic button (/)on the Ribbon. The text will be italicized.
Note: To remove italics, select the text and click the Italic button / again.
4. Click any where in the text area to remove the highlighting.

Alternative Method- Italicizing Texts with Keys
1. Highlight the text to be italicized
2. Press Ctrl + I (Hold down the Ctrl key while pressing I).
3. Click anywhere in the text area to remove highlighting.

How To UnderlineText With the Dialogue Box Launcher
You can underline text using word 2007. Word provides you with different types of underlines from which to choose. The following are some of the the underlines that are available if you use the dialogue box launcher;
1. Full underline.
2. Words only underline
3. Double underline.
4. Thick underline.
5. Dotted underline.
6. Dashed underline.
7. Dot-dash underline.
8. Dot-Dot-Dash underline.
9. Wave underline.
To underline a group of texts using the dialogue box launcher, take the following steps:
1. Highlight the text to be underlined.
2. Choose the Home tab.
3. Click the dialogue box launcher in the font group. The font dialogue box appears.
4. In the underline Style box, click the down arrow to open the pull-down menu.
5. Click the type of underline you wish to use.
Note: To remove an underline, simply select none from the pull-down menu.
6. Click OK to close the dialogue box. The type of underline you selected appears under the words.
7. Click any where in the text area to remove the highlighting.

Alternative Method-Underlining Texts with Keys
1. Highlight the text to be underlined.
2. Press Ctrl + U (I.e. hold down the Ctrl key while pressing U).
Note: To remove the underlining, press Ctrl + U again.
3. Click any where in the text area to clear the highlighting.