And font It represents a collection of characters that have common characteristics. There are many types of fonts for the usual characters (of the Latin alphabet): more straight, thinner, higher, thicker, etc. or fonts for mathematical symbols, Greek, Cyrillic letters, etc. And these of various types. The fonts accepted by Windows They are called fonts True Type. The fonts will be chosen according to the way you want to highlight certain texts. In Word, besides the choice of the desired font, must also be specified how to write, usually called the font style, regarding the format of the characters (normal, bold, Inclinat, Underline) and the size of the characters. Some examples of font names: Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman And so on The most commonly used font styles are: Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold-Italic. Besides, some fonts can still have styles like Light, Extra Bold, Heavy And so on The size of the fonts is measured in points: … 8, 10, 12 …. (1 point = 1/72 inches) .For the formatting of the characters used and their characteristics, the scroll boxes are used Style, Font And Font Size and the buttons Bold, Italic, Underline, from the toolbar Formatting or order Font of the menu Format.
Following her launch in execution, a dialog window will be displayed containing three pages of options: Font, Character Spacing and Text Effects. Any option chosen from the window Font or from the toolbar Formatting It has an effect from the moment of activating it until deactivation, by specifying other formatting characteristics or, if a text block is selected, it refers to the content of the respective block. Due to the simpler use, it is recommended to apply the characteristics to the texts selected in advance.
The significance of the page fields Font from the dialog window Font is the following:
- list Font: selecting the desired font;
- list Font Style: selecting the style of the chosen font;
- list Size: selecting the size of the chosen font;
- hidden list Font Color: selection of color color (there are 16 default colors);
- hidden list Underline Style: Specification of the type of underline of characters: Single, Words Only, Double, Dotted, Thick, Dash, Dot Dash, Dot Dot Dash, Wave;
- hidden list Underline Color: Selecting the color of the character underlining (there are 16 default colors);
- the switches Effects: Applying special effects: Strikethrough, Double Strikethrough, Subscript, Superscript, Shadow, Outline, Emboss, Engrave, Small Caps, All Caps, Hidden ;
- the field Preview: visualization of the font and the selected characteristics;
- the button Default: Changing the characteristics FONT FROM template normal.dot.
The option group Character Spacing allows specifying text spacing (Spacing … By) and its vertical positioning (Position … By), while via the option group Text Effects from the list Animation The user can apply on the text movement effects (and outline that changes color or rotating, a fond which blinks etc.).
