One of the key skills you need to master to effectively use Microsoft Word is how to format text and paragraphs--such as changing your font or font size, bolding, italicizing, or underlining text, or changing the alignment or spacing of a paragraph. This guide covers all of that as well as how to use Styles and the Format Painter. The Easy Word Essentials series of titles are meant to cover one specific topic of interest to users who know the basics of how to navigate Word and are drawn from the Word Essentials series which consists of Word for Beginners and Intermediate Word.