How to Format Text in The Word

Sep 18, 2020 · 4 minute read

If you want you can change the font, size, colour, and other properties of your text.

For that you should follow these steps;

How to Change Text Format in Word;

1- Select the text which you want to change the format of them.

For selecting a word you can double click on it.
For selecting the paragraph you can triple-click on a word inside the paragraph.

select text word

2- Click on the Home tab.

How to Change the Font of Text in Word;

In the Font, part click on the arrow near the font box.
Choose your desired font.

change font word

How to Change Size of Text in Word;

Select your desired words.
In the Size, part click on the arrow near the size box.
Choose your desired size for your text.

change size word

How to Sentence case Text in Word;

If you want to change all the words at the beginning of the sentences in your text to uppercase, you can follow these steps;

Select the text.
Click on the Home tab.
In the Font part, Click on the Change Case key.
Choose Sentence case option.

You can see all the letters at the beginning of sentences were changed to uppercase.

case sensitive word

How to Lowercase Text in Word;

If you want to change all letters of in your words to lowercase, you should follow these steps;

Select the words.
Click on the Homa tab.
In the Font part, Click on the Change Case key.
Choose the lowercase option.

lower case word

How to Uppercase Text in Word;

If you want to change all letters in your words to uppercase you should follow these steps;

Select the words.
Click on the Home tab.
In the Font part, Click on the Change Case key.
Choose “Uppercase” option.

uppercase format word

How to Capitalize Each Word in the Text;

If you want all words in your sentence start with a capital letter, you can follow these steps;

Select the text.
Click on the Homa tab.
In the Font part, Click on the “Change Case” key.
Choose “Capitalize Each Word” option.

capitalize each word format word

How to Toggle Case Text in Word;

Sometimes your Caps Lock on your keyboard is on, and you understand that after you type some part of your text, and you have some words in your text which has started with a lowercase letter and other letters have typed with capital letters,

For solving this problem you can use this command.

select one sentence.
Click on the Homa tab.
In the Font part, Click on the Change Case key.
Choose “tOGGLE cASE” option.

All letters in the selected area will be changed to the opposite case.

toggle case format word

How to Change Text Format in Word;

For changing the format of words to Bold, Italic or Underline, you should follow these steps;

Select the text.
Click on the Home tab.
In the Font part, Choose your desired format.

bold italic underline format word

How to Strikethrough the Text in Word;

If you want to cross the line on the specific words you can follow these steps;

Select the text.
Click on the Home tab.
In the Font part, Choose Strikethrough command.

strikethrough format word

How to Change Text Effects in Word;

Select the text.
Click on the Home tab.
In the Font part, select Text effect command.

Here you can choose your desired effects for the selected text.

text effects format word

How to Highlight Text in Word;

Select the text.
Click on the Home tab.
In the Font part, Click on “Text Highlight colour”.
Select your desired colour for highlighting text.

text highlight color format word

How to Change Text Colour in Word;

Select the text.
Click on the Home tab.
In the Font part, click on “Font Colour” command.

select your desired colour for text.

text font color format word

How to Specify the Format of Text to Other Words;

If you want to assign the format of one word in your text into other words in your text, you can follow these steps;

Select the text which you want to assign its format to another text.
Click on the Home tab.
In the Clipboard part choose “Format Painter”.
Go and select the words or sentences which you want to change their format.

format painter word

Pay attention you can only do that for one time.

If you want to change the format in different parts of your text:

You should Double click on the “Format painters” command and then go and select the words or sentences that you want to change their properties in your text.

format painter text word

How to Change the Format of Text with Style

You can also change the format of your text by altering the format of text in the style part.

For that you can follow these steps;

1- Click on the Home tab.

2- In the Style part click on the launcher sign.

3- Choose the style which your text was written with that.

style setting word

4- Click on the Arrow and choose Modify.

5- In the Formatting part, assigns your desired change.

6- Click Ok.

7- Repeat these steps for all styles in your text.

style change format text word

changing format style word

You can find more about Style subject in how to create a new style in word page.