What Is MS Word Format?

Word formats help create a variety of documents.

The Microsoft (MS) Word format menu provides numerous formatting options to customize professional-looking word-processing documents, as described by Microsoft. Each format tool uses buttons or a dialogue box to reveal the choices of formatting effects. Although the format menu was eliminated in recent versions of MS Word, similar functionality remains on the home tab on the ribbon in newest versions of the software.

Font Formatting Effects

Font formatting effects on the format menu include colors, highlights, sizes, font faces, font style and character spacing.

Paragraph Formatting Effects

Enhance word-processing documents with formatting effects.

Paragraph formatting effects on the format menu include options for line spacing, indents, tabs, page breaks, borders, shading, alignment, lists and sorting.

Format Painter

The format painter in MS Word applies the same formatting effects to multiple locations in a document by double-clicking for faster editing of word-processing documents.

Styles

Styles are a streamlined tool to apply several predefined formatting effects for fonts and paragraphs to entire sections of text.

References

• Microsoft: MS Office Featured Courses

Resources

• Allen Wyatt's Word Tips: Formatting
• brainbell.com: MS Word Formatting & Layout