Word
Paragraph alignment
One of the fundamental typographic specifications for laying out paragraphs is determining how they will appear in relation to the left and right margins. Word refers this specification as alignment.There are four types of paragraph alignment in word.
Left-aligned:
All lines in the paragraph is set against the left text margin. The text of each line does not line up with the right margin. no extra spaces are added to the line.
All lines in the paragraph is set against the right text margin. No extra spaces are added to the line. The text of each line does not line up with the left margin.
All lines in a paragraph are centered between the left and right text margins. No extra spaces are added to the line.
Justified:
All lines in a paragraph are expanded between the both the left and right text margins. space is added. between words and characters, as necessary to fill out the lines.
Type Face
A Type Face(also known as font family ) is an actual style of a letter such as Calibri, Arial, Times New Roman etc,.
Font
Font is a specific size and variations such as bold, italic
- One type face can have two or more different fonts.
- Each font of a type face can has a specific weight, style, width, slant, italicization.
Examples:
Short key
A Special key combination that causes a specific command to be Executed with in the application. Short keys combine the Ctrl or Alt keys with some other keys.
Page Margins
A Special key combination that causes a specific command to be Executed with in the application. Short keys combine the Ctrl or Alt keys with some other keys.
Example: Ctrl + C used to perform the copy operation.
Difference between the short keys and hotkeys
Hot key is a key or combination of keys used together. for example Alt+F used for drop down the file menu. The hotkey is represented by a letter that is underlined.
Examples:
List Of Short keys:
Multiple columns
Hot key is a key or combination of keys used together. for example Alt+F used for drop down the file menu. The hotkey is represented by a letter that is underlined.
Examples:
List Of Short keys:
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Hot Key
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Description
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Ctrl + A
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Select all the text
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Ctrl + N
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Open a new, blank document
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Ctrl + C
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Copy the selected text
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Ctrl + V
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Paste the selected text
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Ctrl + S
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Save the document
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Ctrl + Z
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Undo an action
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Ctrl + Y
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Redo an action
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Ctrl + P
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Print the document
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Ctrl + X
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Cut the selected text
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Ctrl + B
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Apply or remove bold format
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Ctrl + I
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Apply or remove italic format
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Ctrl + D
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Open the font preferences window
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Ctrl + E
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Align the line or selected text to the
center of the screen
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Ctrl + F
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Find Box
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Ctrl + W
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Close the active window or document
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Alt + F, A
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Save As
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Ctrl + O
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Opens the dialog box or page for
selecting a file to open
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Ctrl + R
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Align the text to the Right
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Ctrl + U
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Underlline the selected text
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Ctrl + Shift + L
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Quickly create the bullet point
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Ctrl + Shift + >
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Increase selected font size
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Ctrl + Shift + <
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Decrease selected font size
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Ctrl + Alt + 1
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Change text to heading 1
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Ctrl + Alt + 2
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Change text to heading 2
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Ctrl + Alt + 3
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Change text to heading 3
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Ctrl + Left Arrow
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Moves one word to the left
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Ctrl + Right Arrow
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Moves one word to the right
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Ctrl + Up Arrow
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Moves to the beginning of the line or
paragraph
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Ctrl + Down Arrow
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Moves to the end of the paragraph
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Ctrl + Backspace
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Deletes word to the left of cursor
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Ctrl + End
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Moves the cursor to the end of the
document
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Ctrl + Home
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Moves the cursor to the beginning of
the document
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Ctrl + Spacebar
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Reset highlighted text to the default
font
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Shift + F7
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Runs a Thesaurus check on the selected
word
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Shift + Alt + T
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Insert current Time
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Shift + Alt + D
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Insert current Date
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Ctrl + 1
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Single space line
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Ctrl + 2
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Double space line
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Ctrl + 5
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1.5 line spacing
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- Multiple columns are used in different types of printing.
- In word we can get this type of arrangement.
Select the text and apply no of columns you want. The above picture shows how to do it.
Where we use multiple columns
1.News papers
2.Magazines
3.Book printing
2.Magazines
3.Book printing
Example:
- Multiple columns in Magazine printing:
Page Margins
- Margins in word document create the text area on a page, left, right, top, and bottom.
- They provide a room between the text and the page's edge. Which keeps the text from leaking out of a document.
Where we use page margins:
1.Books
2.Magazines
3.News paper
Example:
1.Books
2.Magazines
3.News paper
Example: