Macintosh Bible, 8th Edition, The

Styling the Document

Word processing is not only about the words themselves but how they look on the page. There's formatting, line breaks, margins, graphics, and more to consider.

Formatting

Formatting means setting the fonts, point sizes, and styles (such as bold or italic) of selected characters. When you format an entire paragraph, you can also set other parameters, such as margins, indents, space before and after, leading, and tabs.

For example, as I type the draft of this chapter, I am using regular 10-point Times with a left indent of 1.08 inches, 13-point line spacing, 6 points of space before each paragraph, and four tab stops. That's what Word tells me, at least (Figure 9.2).

Figure 9.2. The Style dialog box shows the different formatting ...