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Introduction to fonts - Microsoft Word Tutorial
From the course: Word 2013 Essential Training
Introduction to fonts
Before we dive deep into formatting text here in Microsoft Word, it might be a good idea to get a quick introduction to fonts. For some, this will be review; for others, brand new. But what we're going to do is work with a document called Fonts as we investigate fonts. So, go to the Chapter3 folder, and open up this document if you'd like to follow along. We're going to begin right up here at the very first line under Understanding Fonts. Fonts, or as they used to be called, typefaces, really have become synonymous. Fonts used to be a subset of a typeface, but now they really mean the same thing, and that is just a collection of characters; a character set, for example. You will have alphanumeric characters; that is letters, upper and lowercase, numbers, punctuation, even special characters in some sets. Think of smiley faces, for example. But it all comes down to two main groups of fonts; that is serif, and sans serif. Now, here's an example of a very popular serif font: Times New…
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