On the Home tab, in the Font group, you’ll find a lot of buttons and settings that you can use to customize and modify the text. This group contains everything related to the font and its styles.
To change the font of a text, select it and click the Font drop-down arrow. You’ll see a list of available fonts.
List of available fonts
Click the one you want to apply. The text will change accordingly.
Selecting a font
To change the size of your text, select it, click the Font Size drop-down arrow and choose the desired value.
Changing the font size
You can also enter your own value. To do so, click the Font Size text field (not the drop-down arrow), type the value and press Enter.
Entering a custom value for the font size
You can also increase or decrease the font size one step at a time by clicking the Increase Font Size or Decrease Font Size buttons respectively.
Increasing or decreasing the font size
Next, we have the Bold, Italic and Underline buttons. The first one is used for emphasis. The second one makes your text lean slightly to the right. The third one draws a line under your text, in case you want to highlight something. To apply any of these styles, select the text and click the corresponding button.
Applying styles to the text
If you click the Shadow button, you can add a shadow to your text.
Adding a shadow
Perhaps you want to cross out some words from your text. It’s easy to do so. Select the part of the text you want to cross out and click the Strikethrough button.
Crossing out text
Next, we have the Text Highlight Color and Font Color buttons. As their names suggest, the first one determines the color of the highlight and the second one determines the color of the text itself. It’s easy to change any of them: select the text, click the arrow next to Text Highlight Color or Font Color and choose the desired color from the list.
Changing the highlight colorChanging the font color
For the Font Color, if you want a different color not included on the list, you can specify your own. Click More Colors and then, on the Custom tab, enter the RGB or HSL values of your desired color.
Choosing a custom color
Finally, if you want to remove all the formatting from your text, just select it and click Clear All Formatting.
