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Write and format text

Write and format text

From the course: Learning Word Desktop (Microsoft 365)

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Write and format text

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- [Instructor] In this video, I want to cover the basics of formatting text and a document. This is how you set the size, color, font, and other visual aspects of your text. But first, most people already know how to write text in a document, this blinking cursor is where the text will go when you start typing and you can click anywhere in the document to set that blinking cursor. So I could click here at the beginning of this line to set the cursor there, and then I can just type in some text. You'll probably also know if you hit the return key, it will start a new line, but to be completely clear, hitting the return key in Microsoft Word starts a new paragraph, and we'll see paragraph formatting in a moment, so it's important to know that one paragraph ends and another begins when you hit the return key. Now, next, we should see how to format our text, and the first thing you need to do is select the text that you want…

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