Text Formatting

Introduction to Text Formatting

Overview
Text formatting consists of of changing individual characters, words, single paragraphs, or pages. This allows you to tremendously change the look of your text by applying different fonts, sizes, and styles such as making the text appear bold or italicized. Furthermore, you can underline portions of text and/or use different colors to emphasize a point.
The ability to format text highly depends on the application your are using. Because this is a high detail of applications, some of them provide more features than others. In most cases, if you plan to create a highly formatted text, you may need to use a commercial application. Otherwise, Microsoft Windows installs WordPad that is equipped with all the fundamental tools used to format text. What is also available in WordPad is also available in commercial applications. This means that what we will review here can be applied in all or most word processors.

Fundamentals of Text Formatting
As mentioned already, what you need to format text depends on the application you are using. With WordPad, the most fundamental used to format text is the Formatting toolbar:

The Formatting toolbar is equipped with three combo boxes and a few buttons. Like any toolbar, to know what a button is used for, position the mouse on top of it, a tool tip will appear.
Fonts
Introduction
A font is a series of characters designed to draw symbols or readable letters. This design can be made by an individual or a company. After the design has been made, it is electronically made available to individual or companies that can use it to draw characters. Based on this, there are various ways you can get a font in order to it. Because it is designed, a font usually belongs to the designer or is copyrighted. This means that you should have some concerned with getting or using a font.
Practical Learning: Introducing Text Formatting
Start another instance of WordPad and type the following (make sure you put an empty line at the end of the text
Common SenseIntroductionCommon sense, as Alan defined it, was a theory or an illusion that made us believe that most people share some common fundamental qualities. In reality, Alan didn’t agree with it. He thought everyone should be treated as an individual instead of being considered as fitting a particular group. In his everyday life, Alan refused to be identified with others. He strongly advocated individual qualities and personal responsibilities.How it StartedA few months prior to defending his denial of the existence of common sense, Alan had attentively read a book titled “Fundamental Human Attributes” by Jerry Pastor, a self-described scholar of human behavior and ethnocentricity. The goal of the book was not to defend common sense but many sections of the book seemed to support it. After reading the book half-through, Alan thought the author did not make sense. He ended up hating the book and the author.John Pollock, Essays of a Private Life
Getting a Font
There are various ways you can get a font to your computer. When Microsoft Windows gets installed, it also installs various fonts that would be used in the various applications and can be used you. The list of fonts of a computer can be seen from the Fonts icon of Control Panel.
Besides the default fonts, you can install new fonts to your computer. If you install some commercial applications such as Corel WordPerfect or Microsoft Office, it may install various fonts it would use. Once such fonts have been installed, they can be used by other applications of the same computer, not just the application that installed or needs them.
Various web sites also sell or distribute fonts, free or for a fee.
You can purchase a graphics package, such as Corel Gallery, that also includes fonts. Once you get and install such a package, you would have the option to also install or add fonts

Practical Learning: Viewing Fonts

1- To view the list of fonts of your computer, from the taskbar, click either Start -> Settings -> Control Panel or Start Control Panel

2- In the Control Panel window, find and double-click the Fonts icon.It is important to know that the list of fonts of one computer is likely different from that of another computer