Microsoft® Office® Professional 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 6. Formatting your content in Word 2013

In this section:

• Understanding design tools in Word 2013

• Choosing a theme

• Choosing and saving a style set

• Adjusting the colors of your document

• Selecting fonts

• Saving a new theme

• Applying styles

• Modifying styles

• Creating a new style

• Managing styles

• Using the Style inspector

• Formatting and spacing paragraphs

• Working with tabs, indents, and margins

Here’s a simple fact of modern publishing life: if you want someone to actually read the document you prepared in Microsoft Word, you’re probably going to have to put a little artistic effort into it. Nobody wants to read paragraph after paragraph (after paragraph!) of dry, boring text. Think about the last thing you read with interest. Was it a webpage, with colorful ...