MS WORD FORMAT MENU: Font: To select different fonts, their style, size, colour, size and special effects.

Also to adjust the spacing between characters and position of the font(raised or lowered) with respect to other text, text box or table cell. To give animation effects to important text which will be available for view purpose only not for printing. Paragraph: To select paragraph alighnment(left,right,centre & justified), to set indentation (left,right,first lline & hanging indent), to set line spacing(single,double,etc.), to set spacing before or after paragraph. Also to have following optional settings; a) Widow/orphan control: Not allowing single word or line either at the beginning of the fresh page or at the end of the current page. b) Keep lines together: To keep all the lines of a paragraph together at the end of the current page or at the beginning of the fresh page by allowing the paragraph to break across the page. c) Keep with next: When typing multi-point text or sub-paragraphs, this option allows to have all the sub-paragraphs together in a page. d) Page break before: This option allows every paragraph to start at the new page by inserting page break at the end of each paragraph. e) Suppress line number: This option allows to suppress line numbers of the selected portion of the text(removes line number for that text) if line number is given already from page setup. f) Don't hyphenate: This option dis-ables the hyphenation if it is selected from the Tools menu - Language option. Bullets & Numbering : To create bulleted list with design bullet or numbered bullet and allows the formatting of bullet. Borders & Shading : To draw borders around selected text or table, to apply shades and also to create artistic page borders. Columns : columns. To work with text in news paper column mode with selected no. of

Tabs : To set and clear tabs & leaders (left,right,centre,decimal & bar tab). Drop Cap : To drop the first letter of the paragraph to specified no. of lines to give better look to the paragraph. Text Direction: To change the direction of text typed inside the text box. Change case : To convert the current case of text in to other case (lower,UPPER,Title Case, Sentence case or tOGGLE cASE).

Background : To select colour for the background of the text. Generally used for web designing. The view will be automatically changed to web lay out view when background colour is applied. To come to original view select Print layout view from View menu. Themes : To decorate the document with set of background, font styles & colours. Useful in web designing. Autoformat : document. Automatically formats the text as per the informations typed in the

Style : To apply selected style to the text.. Object : To format drawing object any other inserted object.