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Word Processor "FORMATTING TEXT AND PARAGRAPH"

FORMATTING TEXT 
Formatting refers to the way our text will look like – the design of the characters, their size, the space between paragraphs, their alignment, etc. 
First, selection of text. 
• By using the mouse, position the insertion point (by clicking the mouse) at the beginning or end of the block to be selected and then click and drag to the end or beginning of the block. 
• By using the shortcuts: Double-click on a word to select it. n Triple-click on a paragraph to select it. Ctrl+click on a sentence to select it. 
There are basically two types of formatting: 
• Character formatting, and 
• Paragraph formatting 
CHARACTER FORMATTING 
Character formatting is the one which we can apply to any individual character or to a group of characters. 
It has the following options:
Font : This decides the appearance of our characters. 
Font Style : We can make characters stand out by making them Bold, Italic or both. 
Size : This increases/decreases the size of the characters – the size measured in points (72 points =1 inch) 
Font Color : We can apply colours to the characters for printing the final document. Underline : We can draw attention to some particular text by underlining it. 
Effects : We can also apply effects to our text. Two most common ones are Superscript and Subscript. To make a character into superscript, we need to select only that character, and click the box against Superscript or subscript.
PARAGRAPH FORMATTING 
There are some formatting features that get applied to an entire paragraph or paragraphs, but not to any given character or a group of words. Such formatting features are described as Paragraph formatting. 
It provides the following options :
Alignment : The alignment of a paragraph may be left, center, right or justify. 
Left Alignment: All the lines of the paragraph will be aligned on the left. 
Right Alignment: All the lines of the paragraph will be aligned on the right. 
Center Alignment: All the lines of the paragraph will align to the center. 
Justify: The left as well as the right side of the paragraph will be aligned except for the last line.

Indentation : : Indents are the left and right boundaries of selected paragraphs within a document. This may b e necessary when different paragraphs have different left and right boundaries. For example, we can see the indentation in poems. The indentation options available in most word processors are Left and Right. Apart from these, we can have special indentation in the form of First Line and Hanging.

Spacing : This option allows us to have some space before and/or after a paragraph or a group of paragraphs. We can select the paragraph(s) and select or type in the desired value against the appropriate option – Before or After. These values are measured in points. 
         There is also a Line spacing option, which decides on the spacing between the lines of the paragraph. Normally we will type with the value Single for it. But if we want to have more space between the lines, we can select 1.5 lines or Double for it. 

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