Formatting a document

Changing text decoration such as typeface, size, colour, paragraph alignment, borders and background is called formatting the document. To format a font you first select a block, then pick a button in the Font group of the Home tab, or open the Font dialog with the corner button (or Ctrl+D). There you choose typeface, style, size, colour, underline type and colour and effects (strikethrough, superscript, subscript); on the Advanced tab you set scale (character width in per cent), spacing (gap between characters) and position (raised or lowered relative to the line). Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I and Ctrl+U give bold, italic and underline. To format a paragraph it is enough to put the cursor inside it; then use the Paragraph group or dialog to set alignment, left and right indent, first-line indent, space before and after and line spacing. Page numbers are added with the Page Number button on the Insert tab, usually at the bottom of the page.