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Applying Bold, Italic and Underline Effects

The following features are used to
emphasise the text in a document.

• : Click on the Bold button to
make the selected text in bold
face or darker than the normal
text [Press Ctrl + B].

• : To make text in italics, click

on the Italics button. It helps to
emphasise text [Press Ctrl + I].
• : Sometimes to highlight text, we Learn More

underline it. We can do it by clicking on We can combine two features like
the Underline button [Press Ctrl + U]. changing text to bold-italics.
Example: Learning computer is fun.
Changing Text Alignment

Alignment means position of the text on the page. We can set the alignment before
typing the text or we can type the text and then change its alignment on the page. MS
Word provides four options to align text: Align Left, Align Right, Center and Justify.

 Align Left (Ctrl + L): The text is aligned along the left margin.

 Center (Ctrl + E): The text is placed between the left and right margins.

 Align Right (Ctrl +R ): The text is aligned along the right margin.

 Justify (Ctrl + J): The text is evenly aligned from both left and right margins.

Follow these steps to align text.
1. Select the text to be aligned.

2. Go to the ‘Paragraph’ group and select the desired alignment.

Step 2

Step 1

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