General Tools: Home
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The Home toolbar contains text formatting and alignment commands.
These commands are divided into the following categories.
Clipboard
Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description |
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Paste | Pastes the content of the Clipboard into a carriage position. | ||
Cut | Cuts the selected content and places it in the Clipboard. | ||
Copy | Copies the selected content and places it in the Clipboard. | ||
Paste Special | Invokes the Paste Special dialog, allowing you to paste the content of the Clipboard with a specified formatting. |
Font
Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description |
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Font | none | none | Specifies a font for the selected text. |
Font Size | none | none | Specifies a font size for the selected text. |
Grow Font | Increases the font size of the selected text. | ||
Shrink Font | Decreases the font size of the selected text. | ||
Change Case | Changes the case of the selected text to uppercase or lowercase. | ||
Bold | Makes the selected text bold. | ||
Italic | Italicizes the selected text. | ||
Underline | Draws a line under the selected text. | ||
Double Underline | Draws a double line under the selected text. | ||
Strikethrough | Draws a line through the middle of the selected text. | ||
Double Strikethrough | Draws a double line through the middle of the selected text. | ||
Superscript | Makes the selected text smaller and places it above the line of the text. | ||
Subscript | Makes the selected text smaller and places it below the line of the text. | ||
Font Color | Specifies a color for the selected text. | ||
Text Highlight Color | Specifies a highlight color for the selected text. | ||
Clear Formatting | Removes all formatting from the selection, leaving only plain text. | ||
Font | none | none | Invokes the Font dialog, allowing you to adjust different font options for the selected text. |
Paragraph
Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description |
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Bullets | Converts the selected paragraphs into a bulleted list, or inserts a new bulleted list into a carriage position. | ||
Numbering | Converts the selected paragraphs into a numbered list, or inserts a new numbered list into a carriage position. | ||
Multilevel List | Converts the selected paragraphs into a multilevel list, or inserts a new multilevel list into a carriage position. | ||
Decrease Indent | Decreases the indent level of the paragraph or the hierarchical level of the multilevel list’s items. | ||
Increase Indent | Increases the indent level of the paragraph or the hierarchical level of the multilevel list’s items. | ||
Show/Hide ¶ | Shows or hides paragraph marks and other non-printable characters. | ||
Align Text Left | Aligns the current paragraph to the left. | ||
Center | Centers the selected paragraphs. | ||
Align Text Right | Aligns the selected paragraphs to the right. | ||
Justify | Aligns the text of the selected paragraphs to both the left and right margins, adding extra space between words as necessary. | ||
Line Spacing | Changes the spacing between the lines of the selected paragraphs. The amount of space added before and after the paragraphs can also be specified. | ||
Shading | Specifies a background color for the selected paragraphs. | ||
Paragraph | none | none | Invokes the Paragraph dialog, allowing you to adjust different layout options for the selected paragraphs. |
Styles
Command | Description |
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Quick Styles | Applies a style to the selected text. A style is a group of formatting options. All options are applied to text or a paragraph at once when you apply a style. Styles allow you to change text and paragraph appearance quicker than setting each formatting option individually. |
Modify Style | Invokes the Modify Style dialog, allowing you to change the formatting options of the selected style. |
Editing
Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description |
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Find | ‘ | Invokes the Find and Replace dialog that allows you to find the specified text in a document. | |
Replace | Invokes the Find and Replace dialog that allows you to find the specified text in a document and replace it with other text. |