Selecting and formatting text

In some cases, you might adjust the formatting of text, as your typing. …For example, before you type a heading, you might change the font attribute, to …bold, then type your heading, then press Enter, to go to the next line and turn …off the bold setting. But often, you might find it just faster …and easier, to simply type all of your text and then go back and format it later. …Or you may have been given a document by someone else and you need to make changes …to the formatting for that document. Let's take a look at how we can select …text and then change the formatting for that selected text.…

In many cases you may want to change the formatting for an entire line of text. …And in that case, you can just bring your mouse to the left of that line. …You'll notice that I then get an arrow that is pointed a little bit over toward …the right. And when I align that arrow with the line …of text I want to select, I can simply click and that entire line will be selected. …I can then go up to the Font section of the Home tab on the ribbon and change the …