For most of us, the most important thing about the documents we create is the choice of words. Character formatting is mostly about formatting words. In this chapter, you’ve seen the variety of things you can do to words and characters, as well as a variety of ways to treat them in Word. You should now be able to do the following:
Apply character formatting to any size selection of text, from a single character up to a complete document
Choose whether to apply formatting directly or to use a character style
Distinguish between character formatting and characters
Decide among the variety of formatting tools which one to use in any given formatting situation
Remove unwanted character formatting
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