Advanced Formatting

Word offers a number of formatting options and techniques in addition to those I discuss in Chapter 3:

• Character spacing includes the horizontal scale, spacing, position, and kerning of characters.

• Drop Caps enlarges the first character(s) of a paragraph and wraps text around it.

• Change Case changes the case of typed characters.

• Bullets and numbering instructs Word to automatically insert bullet characters or numbers at the beginning of paragraphs.

• Borders and shading enable you to place borders around text, and color or shades of gray within text areas.

• 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.

• AutoFormat instructs Word to automatically format text you type.

• Breaks determines the end of a page, section, or column.

• Multiple-column text enables you to use newspaper-like columns in documents.

• Headers and footers enables you to specify text to appear at the top and bottom of every page in the document.