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Editing Font Properties

You can affect the look and behavior of text in your content in various ways. This includes changing the font family, size, style, color, and more. You can set these properties by using styles or locally by highlighting the text and pressing CTRL+SHIFT+B on your keyboard, selecting the Format > Font menu, or by clicking in the Fonts section of the Home ribbon. Using styles is recommended. Different settings are available depending on the user interface you are using to apply the font properties (e.g., the Font Properties dialog may have an Advanced tab or it may not, depending on where you open it).

Following are some of the more common ways that you can edit font properties.

ClosedWays to Edit Font Properties
  • Bold You can apply a bold weight to text.
  • Case You can change the case of text so it is all uppercase or lowercase. You can also specify that the first letter of each word in the selected content should be capitalized, while the other letters are lowercase.
  • Color of Background You can set a background color for text.
  • Color of Text You can select a color for text.
  • Font Family You can select a font family (e.g., Arial, Verdana) for text to change its look.
  • Italics You can apply italics to text.
  • Italic Correction You can correct the spacing in a line when italic formatting is involved. Often, when you italicize a word in the middle of a sentence, the last letter of the italicized word appears to have less space behind it. This is typically due to the fact that the blank space immediately after the word is italicized and the word that comes after is not. Using italic correction, you can increase this space between the italicized word and the non-italicized word.
  • Letter Spacing You can specify the amount of spacing between letters in text.
  • Overline You can specify that a horizontal line should be placed above text (opposite of underlined text).
  • Redacted Text You can set redacted text on any kind of content (e.g., characters, paragraphs, images, tables). You can do this locally at the font level by highlighting each piece of content. Redaction occurs when content is permanently eliminated from a printed or electronic document. In place of that content, end users will see black rectangles that indicate where the original content was found.
  • Size You can specify the size of text, choosing from many different units of measurement.
  • Smallcaps You can specify that text should be displayed in all capital letters, but in a small size.
  • Strikethrough You can specify that a horizontal line should be added through the middle of the text, providing the effect of content that has been "striked through."
  • Subscript You can apply a subscript effect to topic text, where some text appears below the level of the other characters (e.g., H2O).
  • Superscript You can apply a superscript effect to text, where some text appears above the regular text (e.g., X2).
  • Underline You can easily underline text.
  • Word Spacing You can specify the amount of spacing between words.