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Over the more than thirty years it has existed, Microsoft® Word has become more than just the leading word processor. It is a comprehensive and feature-laden content authoring tool. Word has features and capabilities that even some long-time users are not familiar with. To use Word efficiently and effectively, you need to know how to navigate effectively—how to locate and select portions of the document that you want to work with, and how to issue commands to get the results you want.
Documents are visually more appealing and easier to read when certain formatting and layout options are applied. Microsoft® Word gives you a wide range of control over the appearance of your document, from specific font formats affecting a small text selection; up to more general formats such as indentation affecting paragraphs; and formats that apply to the entire document or large sections of the document, such as page sizes, orientation, and layout. In this lesson, you'll focus on specific formatting options—those that affect text characters and paragraphs