Basic Text Formatting: Fresh Take

  • Reorganize text within a paragraph.
  • Make text italic, bold, or underlined.
  • Change the size, font, and color of text

Formatting text in Microsoft Word

Knowing how to use Word’s formatting tools can help you do your work faster and make your documents more attractive and easy to read.

Compare the documents below. Which one communicates more clearly?

A nicely formatted letter helping show how to successfully set up a well organized message A poorly formatted letter helping show how not to write a message.

You can view the transcript for “Word 2016 – Text & Paragraphs – How to Move Copy Rearrange & Delete a Paragraph on MS Document Pages” here (opens in new window).