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Learn step-by-step how to change Microsoft Word fonts and add some cool and interesting effects to your text.

Changing fonts can be lots of fun, lets add something special to your document text. You'll see that doing these changes (and undoing them) are made easy.

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Changing Fonts, Size & Color
Using the Font dialog box
Changing Character Position & Spacing
Adding Text Effects to your text
Bold, Italic & Underline
Aligning Text
Highlight Text

Changing Character Spacing and Position

You can play around with your text a lot. You can change the spaces between the characters of a word. You can also change the position of the baseline of your text or of certain characters. The options are endless with your Microsoft Word fonts!

microsoft word fonts: expanded and condensed

microsoft word fonts: lowered and raised

To change character spacing or position, follow these steps:

1. Select the text of which you want to change character spacing or position.
   
2. Choose Format from the menu bar, and click on Font.
The Font dialog box opens. Click on the Character Spacing tab.
   

Use the Font dialog box to change the character spacing and position options of your Microsoft Word fonts text.

Microsoft Word Fonts dialog box: Character Spacing
   
3. Select a percentage from the Scale drop-down list box. This will increase or decrease the scale of your text on the page.

From the Spacing drop-down list box, select Expanded or Condensed and choose a point size by which you want to expand or condense your text.

From the Position drop-down list box, select Raised or Lowered and choose a point size by which you want to raise or lower your text.

You can use any of the three options in combination with each other.
   
4. Once you've made your choices, click OK, for the changes to take effect on your text.
   
  Anytime that you want to remove some effects, select the text, go back to the Font dialog box and select 100% or Normal of those that you want back to normal.
 
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