WORD PROCESSING

5. FORMATTING A DOCUMENT

FORMATTING A DOCUMENT 

Formatting a document is processing  of making a document presentable, which entails the following

❖ Font : A font format contains the following

1. Font Face- This is the text outlook of a document, which can be Arial, Times New Roman, freestyle script, Tahoma etc.

2. Font size-  This is the text sizes of the document which ranges from 8-72

3. Font Style- This is the effects on the text, examples are bold, italic, regular, bold italic, underline.

4. Font colour- This is the colour effect on the text such as rd, green, blue etc.

5. Font effect- This display other effect on text such as strike through, subscript, superscript, change case etc.

6. Character spacing- This display different characteristic of spacing that can be applied on the text. Examples, expanded or condensed, kerning etc.

❖ Paragraph-  This feature determines the distances between texts and lines

1. Indent and spacing- This feature creates a text with spacing before or after. examples are alignment indentation and spacing

❖ Bullets and Numbering- This format displays how a list should appear.

✔ Bullets- This is a way of using a picture in form of icons to illustrate list.

✔ Numbering- This is the way of using number to list items.

The numbering of items can either be Roman or Arabic Numerals

INSERTING FEATURES TO A DOCUMENT

These include MS word embedded features and external features that can be extracted into a document. They include:

I. Tables

II. Pictures or Clip Art

III. Shapes

IV. Header & Footer

V. Page Number

VI. Text Box

VII. Word Art

VIII. Drop Cap

IX. Symbols