Font styles for word

When it comes to creating a compelling and effective document, one of the most important tools at your disposal is the font (also known as «typeface»).

Fonts do much more than improve—or hamper—the legibility of your piece. They set a tone. They’ve got personalities. They evoke feelings. As such, fonts can either reinforce or undermine your brand.

Because fonts are so important, you may want to change the default fonts in Microsoft Word. In this article, you’ll see, step-by-step how to add fonts to Microsoft Word so you can change the default fonts in your document.

You’ll also learn tips on where to find the best Microsoft Word fonts and how to choose the best ones for your document.

(Note: In the tutorials below, I use Microsoft Word for macOS. If you’re on Windows or a different version of Word, then your interface will look different.)

Why Use Premium Fonts in Your Microsoft Word Document?

When it comes to creating documents that get and keep your readers’ attention, fonts are some of your most powerful tools. The right fonts:

• reinforce your branding
• express the right tone
• direct the reader’s attention
• improve readability 

You might be tempted to use free fonts for Microsoft Word in your next document. But remember, those built-in MS Word fonts are exactly the same fonts that everyone else is using. Or, you might find a free Microsoft Word fonts download. But free fonts are often not as well-designed as premium fonts.

You can easily add fonts to Microsoft Word from outstanding sources like Envato Elements or GraphicRiver. To be able to download unlimited fonts, then look to Envato Elements. You get access to thousands of fonts. Download as many as you need for one small subscription price. 

For one-off projects, GraphicRiver is a great source of the best Microsoft Word fonts on a pay-per-use basis. 

And lastly, use the tips above to choose and use fonts effectively in your document. The misuse and overuse of fonts are sure signs of an amateur.

How to Change Microsoft Word Default Font 

Word comes with default fonts, but you can change the font to match your branding or to change the tone and personality of the document. 

You’ll find that dozens of fonts are already built into Word, and you can replace the default fonts with those. And you can also add new fonts. We’ll talk about how to add fonts to Microsoft Word later in this post.

To change the Microsoft Word default font, you’ve got three options:

1. How to Change the Microsoft Word Default Font for a Block of Text

This is a quick method that’s good to use if you want to change the default font only for one or a few bits of text. Here are the steps:

Step 1. Select the Text

Step 2. Open the Font Selection Tool

Click on the Font selection tool on the ribbon. You must be on the Home tab to see the buttons for formatting text. The Microsoft Word fonts list opens.

Step 3. Find the font you wish to use.

The Microsoft Word fonts list shows the Theme Fonts, Recent Fonts, and All Fonts. Scroll down farther to see all the fonts available on your computer. This includes fonts that are built-in as well as fonts you’ve added, listed in alphabetical order. The fonts list also gives you a preview of what each font looks like.

Click on the font you wish to use. A triangle next to the font means there are further selections you can make.

Step 4. Change the Font Size

Go to the font-size button to change the font size. 

Or, click the Increase Font Size or Decrease Font Size buttons to change the font size by increments.

Step 5. Change Other Text and Paragraph Settings

Use the other buttons on the ribbon to add emphasis (bold, italics, underline), change the font color, and apply other effects.

We’ve now changed the default font in Microsoft Word.

2. How to Replace the Default Font Based on Paragraph Style

By changing the font used for a paragraph style, the change is applied globally in your document for all text with that paragraph style. Use this if you want to change the default font for large sections of text. 

Follow the steps on how to change the Microsoft Word default font for a paragraph style:

Step 1. Select the Text

Highlight text that’s representative of the paragraph style you want to re-format. Make sure it’s got the paragraph style you want to change.

In this example, I’ll replace the default font for the Normal paragraph style. 

Step 2. Apply the Font Settings You Wish to Use

Follow the steps in Method 1 to change the font, font size, font color, and apply other settings. You may also want to change the paragraph settings, such as alignment, line spacing, etc.

Step 3. Apply the New Formatting to the Paragraph Style

With the cursor in the paragraph you’ve formatted, click on the Styles button on the ribbon. This opens the paragraph Styles selection. 

The current paragraph style will be highlighted. In this case, it’s the Normal style. Right-click on the Normal style, then click on Update Normal to Match Selection.

All other paragraphs with the Normal style are updated with the new font and settings you made.

3. How to Change the Font Based on Paragraph Styles Button

This method has the same end-result as Method 2. It changes the default font for a specific paragraph style. The steps are slightly different, as you’ll see:

Step 1. Open the Styles Settings

Click on the Styles button on the ribbon. This displays the paragraph styles.

Step 2. Modify the Paragraph Style

Right-click on the style you wish to change. Click Modify…

The Modify Style dialog opens.

Change the font, font size, and other settings. The box shows a preview of what the paragraph will look like when the settings you chose are applied. If you’re happy with the way it looks, click OK.

The new font (and other settings) will be applied to all paragraphs with that paragraph style.

How to Add Fonts to Microsoft Word

Right out of the box, Microsoft Word comes with dozens of fonts built in. But what if you want to use a font and you don’t see it on the Microsoft Word fonts list? 

In that case, you add the font to Microsoft Word. I’ll walk you through how to do that in this section:

Step 1. Find New Fonts

The first step is to find the font you want to use. There are many sources of custom fonts. One to consider is Envato Elements, where you can download an unlimited number of fonts for one small subscription price. 

To find a font you like, log into your Envato Elements account.

On the search bar, click on the downward arrow, then select Fonts.

Type a keyword into the search bar, depending on what kind of font you’re looking for. Click the search icon. The most relevant results appear.

Refine the results by Categories, Spacing, Optimum Size, and Properties. You can also sort the results by popularity (Popular) and newness (New).

Click on a font image or name to see its details.

When you find a font you like, click on any of the Download buttons on the page. 

The Add this file to a project dialog box pops up.

Select a project to add the font file to. Or, click Create new project to add it to a new project. For this example, I’ll add the font to my existing tutorial project. Click the Add & Download button.

The file manager opens (Finder, if you’re on macOS; File Explorer, if you’re on Windows). Specify where you want to save the font file on your computer. Click Save.

The font files are now saved on your computer as a zip file. 

Double-click on the zip file to unzip it. 

Double-click on the font file itself to open it. It’ll usually have an extension like OTF or TTF. Click Install Font. 

This adds the font to your computer’s fonts library.

The new font should now appear in the All Fonts list in Microsoft Word. To confirm, click on the Fonts button on the ribbon and scroll down the list until you see the new font. If you don’t see it, you may have to restart your computer.

Now, follow any of the methods above to change the default font with the new one.

2 Types of Fonts

Now that you know how to add fonts to Microsoft Word and replace the default fonts in your document, it would help for you to know more about fonts. This will help you choose the best fonts for your Word document.

There are two basic types of fonts you can use in your documents:

1. Serif Fonts

Serif fonts have little lines at the end of each stroke, like this:

Common examples of serif fonts include:

Various research studies have shown that, when it comes to printed matter, serif fonts are the easiest to read and result in the best comprehension.

2. Sans Serif Fonts

As the name implies, sans serif fonts don’t have little lines at the end of each stroke (“sans” means “without” in French):

These are some of the most common sans serif fonts:

Citing research by the Software Usability Research Laboratory, Drew E. Whitman in his book Ca$vertising, noted that sans serif fonts are the most legible fonts to use on a computer screen. Specifically, Arial, Courier, and Verdana were considered the best for online reading.

But these studies were conducted when the resolution of online screens was still very low (below 100 dpi) compared to printed materials (300 dpi). As computer screen resolutions get closer to 300 dpi, serif fonts may prove to be legible both online and offline.

In the meantime, you can use both serif and sans serif fonts in one document—if you know how. Read on for tips on how to use combine fonts.

5 Tips on Using Typography Effectively in Your Word Documents

It’s easy to get carried away with fonts! You may find that having so many kinds of fonts available at your fingertips unleashes your creativity. Yet, as with most things, fonts can either enhance or sabotage your document. 

Follow these tips to harness the power of typography:

1. Keep It Simple

When it comes to choosing fonts, legibility is of utmost importance. Sure, it’s easier than ever now for you to find the most creative and outrageous fonts. But if nobody can read your text, then they defeat their purpose. If you must use an ornate font, restrict it to one letter or word.

2. Stick to Two Fonts

A document that’s dripping with many different fonts makes it look amateurish, confusing, and incoherent. For best results, stick to a maximum of two fonts: one serif and one sans serif. (More on this in tip #4).

Remember, use formatting like bold, italics, underlines, different font sizes and colors to add emphasis and variety.

3. Match the Tone and Goals for the Document

Fonts have personality, so pick the ones that match the tone and goals of the document. For example, the fonts for a 16th birthday party invitation will be different from the ones in a financial business report.

When in doubt, pre-test the document. Show it to other people, especially those who are like the intended audience. Make sure they can comprehend the document, first, and that they respond favorably.

4. Choose Fonts Appropriate for the Document’s Intended Use

Whether the document will be printed out or consumed on a computer screen will also affect your choice of fonts.

If you’re making a printed document, use the sans serif font for headings and the serif font for body text. For a web-based document, switch it: Use a serif font for headings and sans serif for body text.

5. Use Handwritten, Cursive, and Decorative Fonts Sparingly

There are other font types that may not fit easily in either serif or sans serif categories. These include handwritten, cursive, and decorative fonts. Handwritten fonts, as the name says, look like they were written by hand. These are extremely popular and useful for adding a warm, personal touch on materials. They can range from casual to glamorous.

Cursive fonts are a kind of handwritten font that look like they’re written in longhand. Beware of using cursive and handwritten fonts because they can be difficult to read. Use them for short bits of text you want to emphasize.

You can easily find handwritten fonts in marketplaces like Envato Elements or GraphicRiver.

Decorative fonts have special effects or treatments. They may be serif or sans serif. And some handwritten fonts can be considered decorative as well. 

Here’s a sampling of the decorative fonts available in Envato Elements:

5 Best Font Styles for 2020

Designers come up with new fonts every day. Below are five of the best and freshest Microsoft Word font styles we’re seeing for 2020, along with two fresh examples of each style:

1. Vintage Fonts

Vintage fonts evoke the aesthetic of times past. If you’re working on a document that’s about a specific time, you’re bound to find a font to match.

Anthique — Vintage Typeface

Anthique is reminiscent of handmade Victorian hand lettering but with a modern flavor. It works best for materials that relate to the early 1800s. The font includes three variations in TTF and OTF formats. It also supports multilingual characters.

Middle Class Script

Middle Class is a script font that’s evocative of the bold style of the ’60s and ’70s. It’s got a hand-drawn and layered style, and includes punctuation, common ligatures, and extra swashes (lines).

2. Brush Script Fonts

Brush script fonts are handwritten fonts that look like they were written with a brush, such as a calligraphy or a paintbrush. These are increasingly popular as brands want to add a personal touch to their materials.

Eberthany Brush Script

Eberthany is a modern brush script signature font that works for:

• social media posts
• logos
• wedding invitations
• labels
• quotes
• and more 

It works best with software that supports OpenType fonts like Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign, and Corel Draw.

Mistrully Brush Script

Mistrully is a stylish brush script that looks like natural handwriting. It comes with special swashes or handwritten lines that you can use to add emphasis. Mistrully works well for logos, social media posts, advertisements, product designs and labels, stationery, among others.

3. Font Duos

Font Duos take the guesswork out of choosing fonts that work well together. These two-for-one font packages are designed to complement each other. You only need to pick the font duo that aligns with your branding and the tone of the material you’re designing. Examples of font duos include:

Chiladepia — Font Duo

The Chiladepia Font Duo is made up of two handwritten fonts. One’s a cursive font and the other’s a sans serif font. This font duo would work well on a computer screen. Use the cursive font for titles or headers and the sans serif font for the rest of the document.

Perkin | Duo Font Pack

The Perkin Duo Font combines a bold sans serif and a serif font. The sans serif font is best for titles and headings, while the serif font works great for body text. This duo is ideal for printed materials.

4. 3D Decorative Fonts

3D decorative fonts look like they’re popping off the pages. These fonts are incredibly eye-catching. For that reason, they’re great for titles. But, they’re not the most legible fonts, so use them sparingly for short bits of text.

Ultra — Modern Font

If you’re creating a futuristic document, then consider the Ultra — Modern Font. It’s got a modern and futuristic style. This pack is actually made up of four font styles: regular, bold, 3D, and bold 3D. It also comes in both OTF and TTF formats.

Under Construction 3D Color Font

Under Construction is a stunning 3D decorative font to use on materials related to industry, construction, technology, and the like. Each letter looks like it floats on top of the page. It’s a color or SVG OpenType font, which works only in Photoshop CC 2017+, Illustrator CC 2018, and some Mac apps.

5. Tech Sans Serif Fonts

Tech sans serif fonts have gone a long way since the pixelized arcade fonts of the ‘80s. Many are also much more legible and modern. Below are two examples:

Azuria — Technology Science Font

The Azuria — Technology Science Font evokes technology, science, and outer space. Its metallic, 3D look would work well in video games, movie titles, and tech-related branding. The font includes all Latin letters from A-Z, numbers, and punctuation marks.

Cyborg — Futuristic Technology Typeface

Cyborg is another futuristic tech font. Inspired by science fiction, it’s perfect for titles related to space, technology, and science. It comes in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats.

Put Fonts to Work in Your Microsoft Word Document Today

As you’ve learned in this article, you don’t need to stick to the default fonts in Microsoft Word. Follow the steps outlined above to replace the default fonts with ones that are more appropriate to your document. 

Now that you understand how to add fonts to Microsoft Word, you’re ready to start taking advantage of the unique look a professionally designed font can give your documents. 

At Envato Elements and GraphicRiver we’ve got some of the best Microsoft Word fonts available. Take a look at our Microsoft Word fonts list today. Download your favorites for your next MS Word document.

Free Fonts for Every Project

Style matters.

As a creative designer, you understand exactly how important it is to use the right font for every project. The style of the words on the page influences the overall tone of the content, draws the eye to particular points, and affects readability. 

But with so many free downloadable fonts available on the web, it’s getting more and more difficult to find the fonts that can actually elevate your work.

And that’s why we’ve put together our collection of the best free fonts available. You can download each one of these fonts free to use in your projects. There are even free fonts for commercial use. And to help you find exactly what you’re looking for, we’ve broken it down into a few categories.

Free Sans Serif Fonts 

Sans Serif fonts are fonts that don’t have serifs (the small lines often seen at the ends of most letters.) They’re popular for their modern, simple, and minimalist style. Because of this styling, you’ll often see sans serif fonts used in short blocks of text. They’re also usually the default font style in many apps and websites. 

Need a san serif font? Check out Story Choice Sans Serif and Sans Serif Plus 7

Free Serif Fonts

Serif fonts include a small stroke (known as a serif) at the end of the lines in most letters. Serif fonts have a classic look to them, and the serifs are also known to aid in the readability of text. Because of this, serif fonts are popular fonts for long blocks of text like books, newspapers, and magazine articles. 

If you’re searching for free serif fonts, check out popular fonts like NIGHTMARE PILLS and Playfair Display.

Free Brush Fonts

Brush fonts include artistic details meant to make them appear hand-painted. You can typically see lines that make each individual letter look as though someone took the time to handcraft the words rather than type them. These artistic details make brush fonts a popular choice for greeting cards, posters, and rustic themed websites. 

Check out Calligraphy and Angel Tears if you’re looking for great brush fonts to include in your next project.

Free Handwriting Fonts

Handwritten notes are indisputably more intimate than typed letters, and that’s exactly the feeling that free handwriting fonts bring to a project. Handwriting fonts imitate real handwriting, making them appear authentic, intimate, and classic. These fonts are available in many different styles, from whimsical to elegant and everything in-between.

Looking to download free fonts in the handwriting style? Take a look at Hello Ketta and Great Day! Or browse our selection of cursive font styles.

Free Retro and Vintage Fonts

Conjuring the essence of years gone by isn’t always easy, but using the right retro and vintage fonts can help you achieve the feel you’re striving for. Perfect for posters, cards, and website headings, these fonts are pure nostalgia from a simpler time. 

Whether you’re looking for a font that reminds you of the bravado of the New Wave era or makes you want to go to a hop from 1958, we have the vintage fonts you need. Check out Retro New Version or Bratsy Script for some inspiration.

Free Graffiti Fonts

Looking to add an urban edge to your next project? Graffiti fonts can help you capture a rebellious, streetwise feel. Plus, they’re artistic and can be incorporated into just about any project you might be working on. From posters to greeting cards and website headings, these fonts will give you the stand-out style you’re looking for. 

Explore fonts like Ghang and Fat Wandals to capture the edgy, artistic vibe of graffiti in your next project.

Free Tattoo Fonts

Whether you’re searching for the perfect font to use in your next tattoo or you’re just looking to bring the style of a classic tattoo to your next project, there are hundreds of free tattoo fonts for you to choose from. These free fonts range in style from bold and rebellious to elegant and artistic, so there’s always one to match the project you’re working on.

Check out Easy November and S&S GreyHood Seven for some inspiration.

Free Unusual Fonts

Some free fonts are so unique that they need a category all their own! These original and unique designs are the definition of imagination. You’ll find unusual fonts to compliment any project you can think of—greeting cards, posters, party invitations, and more. 

Take a look at Poland Canned into Space and Bogeyman Eroded to take a look at a few of our favorite unusual free fonts.

No matter what kind of project you’re working on, you’re sure to find free font downloads that fit your needs right here at Fontspace. Our library of over 66,000 fonts has everything from classic serif fonts to creative and cool fonts, and everything else in-between. 

Have more questions? Contact us today or use our font generator. Our team is always happy to help!

You can use styles to quickly apply a set of formatting choices consistently throughout your document. If you want formatting choices that are not available from the built-in styles and themes available in Word, you can modify an existing style and customize it to suit your needs. You can change the formatting (such as font size, color, and text indentation) in styles applied to titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on. You can also select formatted text in your document to create a new style in the Styles gallery.

The styles covered in this article are located in the Styles gallery, a visual menu located on the Home tab. To apply a style, simply select the text you want to format, and then click the style you want in the Styles gallery. To learn more, see Apply a style to text in Word.

Modify an existing style

You can modify an existing style in the Styles gallery in two ways:

• Modify a style by updating it to match formatting in your document

• Modify a style manually in the Modify Style dialog box

Modify a style by updating it to match formatting in your document

If you have text in your document that already has a style applied, you can change the formatting of that text and apply it to the style in the Styles gallery.

1. Select text in your document that has the style applied, such as Heading 1.

   When you select text that has a style applied, that style is highlighted in the Styles gallery.

   

2. Format the selected text with the new attributes that you want.

   For example, you might want to change the point size for the Heading 1 style from 16 points to 14 points.

3. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, right-click the style that you want to change, and then click Update [Style Name] to Match Selection.

   Note: All text with the style that you changed will automatically change to match the new style that you defined.

Modify a style manually in the Modify Style dialog box

You can modify a style directly in the Styles gallery, without using the text in your document.

1. On the Home tab, right-click any style in the Styles gallery and click Modify.

   

2. In the Formatting section, make any formatting changes you want, such as font style, size, or color, alignment, line spacing, or indentation.

   

3. Choose whether the style change applies to the current document or to all future documents.

   

Create a new style based on document formatting

You can select formatted text in your document to create a new style that you add to the Styles gallery.

1. Right-click the text on which you want to base a new style.

2. In the mini toolbar that appears, click Styles, and then click Create a Style.

   

3. In the Create New Style from Formatting dialog box, give your style a name and click OK.

   Your new style will now appear in the Styles gallery.

   Note: If you want your new style to appear in all new Word documents, right-click it in the Styles gallery, click Modify, and then select New documents based on this template at the bottom of the dialog box.

1. Right-click the text on which you want to base a new style, point to Styles, and then click Save Selection as a New Quick Style.

2. In the Create New Style from Formatting dialog box, give your style a name and click OK.

   Your new style will now appear in the Styles gallery.

   Note: If you want your new style to appear in all new Word documents, right-click it in the Styles gallery, click Modify, and then select New documents based on this template at the bottom of the dialog box.

See also

Apply a style to text in Word

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Great graphic design is powered by great font selection. But picking great fonts is a challenge most people. Luckily, Word has made adding great fonts to your designs much easier. In this tutorial, our team of design experts will cover the best fonts in Word.

Best Fonts in Word

1. PT Serif

PT Serif™ is the second pan-Cyrillic font family developed for the project “Public Types of the Russian Federation.” The first family of the project, PT Sans, was released in 2009.

2. Sorts Mill Goudy

Sorts Mill Goudy is a revival of Frederic Goudy’s ‘Goudy Oldstyle’ with Regular and Italic styles, and extended Latin character coverage.

3. GFS Didot

GSF Didot was designed by the famous French typecutter Firmin Didot, a new Greek typeface in Paris in 1805, under the influence of the neoclassical ideals of the late 18th century. It was immediately used in the publishing program of Adamantios Korai, the prominent intellectual figure of the Greek diaspora and leading scholar of the Greek Enlightenment.

4. Courier Prime

Courier Prime is a new take on IBM’s Courier which was designed in 1956 by Howard Kettler.

5. David Libre Regular

David Libre is a Libre David Hebrew, based on David Hadash Formal, released by Monotype Corporation in 2012. David Hadash Formal is modern digitization made from original large-scale technical drawings for the typeface drawn by Ismar David.

6. Cardo

Cardo contains features that are required for high-quality typography such as ligatures, text figures (also known as old-style numerals), true small capitals, and a variety of punctuation and space characters.

7. Tahomo Font TH

Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface that Matthew Carter designed for Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft first distributed it, along with Carter’s Verdana, as a standard font in the initial release of Windows 95. Tahoma is often compared with Fruiter, another humanist sans-serif typeface.

8. Glass Antigua

Glass Antiqua is a revival of the 1913 typeface “Glass Antiqua” by “Genzsch & Heyse” found in the Taschen book “Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, 1901-1938.” A magnificent and unique design with a Jugenstile fleur, combining Slab Serif and Antiqua, plus elements of cursive calligraphy.

9. Arturo

Arturo is a sans serif family designed by Francesco Canovaro as part of his research on the digital reinvention of handmade brush lettering.

10. Calistoga

Calistoga is a cheerful, space-saving display typeface. It was inspired by Oscar M. Bryn’s lettering as seen on the posters made for the Western US-based Santa Fe Railroad. Its vintage railroad flavor is found in the whole design.

Conclusion

Word is an amazing tool, and I hope you found this tutorial covering the best fonts in Word, useful! Below are several related tutorials that you might find useful.

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In this chapter, we’ll talk about how to change font style and size in Microsoft Word. Besides, you can use different fonts with different sizes in Microsoft Word. Also, change the fonts and their sizes to change the look of your document.

Most of the time, you use different fonts for headings and paragraphs. Learning how to use different fonts is important. This chapter will show you how to easily change a font and its size.

Meanwhile, this is the continuation of the previous tutorial on how to use spelling and grammar checker in MS Word and How to Undo and Redo In MS Word which are part in editing documents.

What is font style in MS Word?

A font style is a group of formatting rules that you can use to quickly change the look of text, tables, and lists in your document. When you apply a style, you do a bunch of formatting tasks at once.

Moreover, it is usually used to describe a whole group of fonts that are located on the home tab. Also, people like to use font styles. So, in MS Word, the word “font” often refers to a whole group of display options, like the typeface, color, weight, and size.

Most people use regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic font styles. This is not the end, though, and not all fonts have these four. In fact, the font designer is the only one who can decide what styles a font can have.

If you understand the difference, let’s look at how to look at MS Word’s list of font styles and how to add new font types or typefaces.

What is font size in MS Word?

The font size or text size refers to the size of the characters displayed on a computer screen or printed on a page. In addition, it is a number that represents the number of points in the text’s height, or how tall the text is in points.

A font is usually measured in points. Points determine the lettering’s height. There are approximately 72 points per inch or 2.54 centimeter. For instance, font size 72 would be approximately one inch tall, whereas font size 36 would be approximately half an inch.

What is font in MS Word?

Fonts are used to change how text or a Word document looks and make it look better or fit the needs of the situation. MS Word has a lot of different fonts, such as Calibri, Times New Roman, Algerian, Arial, Century, etc.

What is the purpose of font in a document?

The purpose of fonts is that they can set the mood and feel of a place. In addition, they can show how a document should be read and which parts are more important than others just by looking at them. Fonts can even be used to speed up or slow down how long it takes to read a document. The business of professional printing has known this for a long time.

How to Change Font Style in Microsoft Word

How Many Font Styles are there in MS Word

MS Word has three different font styles: Bold, Italic, and Underline.

How to Change Font Style to Bold:

Step 1: Select the text you want to change the Font Style.

Step 2: Now, select the Font Style Bold from the Font Style bar under the Home menu bar.

How to Change the Font Style to Italics:

• Now, Select the text you want to change the Font Style. Then select the Italic Font Style of your choice from the Font Style bar under the Home menu bar. 

How to Use the Underline Font Style:

• Now, select the Underline Font Style of your choice from the Font Style bar under the Home menu bar.

You could also use the shortcuts like:

• CTRL+B for Bold
• CTRL+I for Italics
• CRTL+U for Underline

List of Fonts in MS Word

The table below shows the list of All fonts in MS Word.

Abadi MT Condensed Light	Impact
Albertus Extra Bold	Incised901 Bd BT
Albertus Medium	Incised901 BT
Allegro	Incised901 Lt BT
Amazone BT	Informal011 BT
AmerType Md BT	Jester
Antique Olive	Kabel Bk BT
Arial	Kabel Ult BT
Arial Black	Kaufmann Bd BT
Arial MT	Kaufmann BT
Arial Narrow	Korinna BT
Arrus BT	Letter Gothic
Aurora Cn BT	Lithograph
AvantGarde Bk BT	Lithograph Light
AvantGarde Md BT	Long Island
BankGothic Md BT	Lucida Console
Bazooka	Lucida Handwriting
Benguiat Bk BT	Lucida Sans
BernhardFashion BT	Lucida Sans Unicode
BernhardMod BT	Lydian BT
BinnerD	Marigold
Book Antiqua	Market
Bookman Old Style	Matisse ITC
Boulder	Monotype Corsiva
Bremen Bd BT	MS LineDraw
Calisto MT	News GothicMT
Calligrapher	NewsGoth BT
CaslonOpnface BT	OCR A Extended
Century Gothic	Old Century
Century Schoolbook	Onyx BT
Cezanne	OzHandicraft BT
CG Omega	Pegasus
CG Times	Pickwick
Charlesworth	Poster
Charter Bd BT	PosterBodoni BT
Charter BT	PTBarnum BT
Chaucer	Pythagoras
ChelthmITC Bk BT	Ribbon131 Bd BT
Clarendon Condensed	Sceptre
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Summary

In summary, we’ve talked about how to change font style in Microsoft Word as well as what those terms mean. In addition, we know the different fonts of Word and the font sizes available in words. We also gain insight into changing font styles step by step. 

We hope this tutorial helps you as you plan to create a document in MS Word.

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This is the second in a series on formatting books for print.
Part 1 is First Steps in Formatting for Print.

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In our first article in this series, we looked at three important topics for the writer who is self-publishing print books—trim, font, and margins. Before you begin formatting the text itself, you’ll want to choose trim size (the book’s dimensions), font and font size, and margin sizes.

Once you’ve made your decisions and set up your Word doc to reflect these choices—your paper size will match the trim size and will no longer be 8 1/2 x 11 or A4, and your margins will no longer be the typical one inch on each side—you can make other changes. (A reminder that the specifics of this series relate to MS Word, although you can use other software to prepare your manuscript for publishing.)

Be sure to save your formatted document with a new name so you can go back to your working manuscript in its original form if you need to.

Justified Text

While you probably worked with text that was aligned left and jagged on the right, you’ll now want to justify the text. Justification gives you straight margins on both sides rather than jagged ones on the right and is the typical setup for print books.

One easy way to justify your text is to highlight all of it (Ctrl+A) and type Ctrl+J.

A second way is to highlight all the text and click the justified text icon in Word’s toolbar.

With both options, all text will be justified. And that means your chapter titles as well as the story text. This isn’t really a problem, however, since chapter titles will require attention for other reasons and you’ll be changing the font for those eventually. (When you set the font style for chapter titles, it’s likely that you’ll center the title, but you don’t have to. You may align the title to the left or indent to allow room for a graphic.)

Beyond highlighting all the text and then justifying it, there are other ways to justify text. You could create a font style to set up your body text to include justified text. The use of font styles makes formatting a great deal easier.

We’re going to look at font styles in some detail in this article before we go into other specifics about formatting.

Font Styles

MS Word allows you to assign styles to each type of text in your document. Using font styles makes it easy to change all instances of one style at the same time without affecting text that uses any other style.

For a novel, you’ll typically have a style for your regular body text (with indented paragraphs), a style for body text that’s not indented (first lines of chapters and/or scenes), a style for chapter numbers and/or chapter titles, styles for author names and book titles in headers (which could be separate styles), a style for page numbers in either header or footer, and styles for the front matter, including copyright, acknowledgement, and title pages.

While novels typically include author name in the left page header and novel title in the right page header, nonfiction headers are often arranged differently. Nonfiction books often include the book title in the left page header and a chapter title in the right. Nonfiction books with multiple parts may include part and chapter titles in headers and the book title in the footer. Most nonfiction doesn’t include the author name in header or footer. And you may find you need a different font style for each element in your headers and footers.

For fiction and nonfiction, you may also need a separate font style or styles for the first line of a chapter—will you use small caps for the first few words or even for the entire first line? Will you use a drop cap for the first word of a chapter? What about the first line after a scene break—indented or not?

This would be a great time to pull out several dozen books and start studying the formatting. Looking at two or three books won’t be enough—expose yourself to twenty or thirty books and layouts. See which elements appeal to you. See if you can determine why choices were made for certain books.

Does a drop cap style better fit a certain genre?

Are page numbers in the header or in the footer? Centered in the middle or flush with the margins?

Are book titles and author names in different fonts in the header? Are the fonts the same but of a different size?

Do chapters begin halfway down the page or only one third of the way? And where do chapter titles fall, halfway between the top of the page and the first line of the chapter or closer to either the top or the center of the page?

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Once you decide on the options you want to try, it’s time to set up the text.

Make sure that you’ve changed the paper sizes and the margins before you start changing the text itself.

If you’ve used font styles all along, you’ll be ahead of the game. If you haven’t, you’ll need to take time to create styles as you format. Styles make the management of text easy and nearly automatic. Once you decide on a font style for a certain type of text, you simply apply that style each time you need it. And if you need to change one or more features of the style, you change the font style itself and not the text. When you modify the style, all text based on that style is changed as well.

You can also piggyback one style on another. If you have used one style for body text that’s indented but need a style that’s exactly the same—same font, same font size, same line spacing—except you want to eliminate the indent, you can create a new font style based on the original one and simply change the indent. Just save the new font style with a different name.

This may sound confusing, but it’s actually not. This is one instance, however, when trying the steps for yourself, using sample text, will likely be helpful for making sense of the tips.

For our purposes, I’m going to walk through the process of creating a few styles and applying them to the manuscript text only, meaning only body text and chapter titles. Styling for headers and footers and front matter can be achieved the same way.

Some formatters strip all formatting from text when they’re ready to format for print, and you may want to do that as well, especially if you’ve played with a lot of different fonts and spacing. But you don’t have to. If you work with styles all along and rely on those rather than on manual tabs or extra paragraph breaks, your manuscript may only need a little tweaking before it’s ready for formatting.

Did I mention that you can add spacing to your font styles? This means that with your chapter title, you can have it begin at a certain place on a page, no more inserting dozens of paragraph breaks to move the text into place. You can also build in line spacing to be included after a paragraph containing a certain font style. So if you want your chapter’s body text to begin four line spaces after the chapter title, you can include that detail in your font style for the chapter title. You could also include spacing before a particular font style. For a nonfiction book, you may want to increase the space between multiple examples or between the final example and the resumption of the regular body text. This is easy to set up with font styles.

Anything you can apply to text can be achieved through a font style.

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When you begin a new document in Word, you’re usually using the a font style called normal. Normal may be preset to something such as Times New Roman, 12 pt., aligned left, with no indents, line spacing at 1.15, and spacing of 10 points after each paragraph. This would be common for a letter or something similar.

When you format for a manuscript that you’re submitting to an agent or publisher or are printing for yourself, you probably changed your formatting at least once—to double space the text. You may have also changed the margins to make sure they were one inch on every side.

When you format a book for print, you again need to make changes to the text’s format.

Let’s assume that you’ve got body text (the bulk of the story itself) that’s aligned left (ragged on the right) and not indented, and you’ve got chapter titles (or numbers) that you’ve centered. You now want to set up styles that will format both these types of text (plus a couple of others).

If you have only a couple of different styles of text so far, that’s great. You can format for some additional styles as you go along.

If you didn’t set up styles beforehand, the easiest way to add styles is probably to first create a body text style and change all your text to that style.

There are a couple of ways to add and modify styles, and a couple of ways to move in and out of the styles pane; I suggest that once you’re familiar with the styles pane and style dialogue boxes, you find the best options for your workflow and your experience with Word.

On the home tab, click the arrow under change styles (or type Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S). Both of these open the styles pane (or window).

You can adjust the styles pane to show only the styles you’re using for the current document, but there are other options as well. Once you get used to working with styles, you may want to play around with the options here.

Word comes with some styles already set up (such as headings and subtitles), styles that you can modify, but we’re going to set up our own styles.

To set your first style, click on the new style icon on the bottom of the styles pane. A dialogue box will open, allowing you to create a new style. Note that you can base your new style on an existing style—that’s what we’re going to do.

Give your style a name. You won’t want to use a style name that Word has reserved, so try something that means something to you and to the specific text. Let’s call our first style novel body.

Next we add a few general bits of information.

The style type will be paragraph (more on this option later), style based on normal, and style in the next paragraph will be novel body as well.

After you enter that information, you’re ready to start styling. I’m going to skip some options since we won’t need all of them, at least not to get started.

Enter font and font size. (We talked about choosing fonts for print books in part 1.)

Click on the icon that will justify the text—this is the image whose lines evenly fill out the image from left to right.

Click on the format button on the bottom of the window and go to paragraph. Here you can set up indents on the indents and spacing tab—under special, try a first line indent of .2, .25, or .3 inches. (You can always modify your choices. It’s likely that you’ll try a couple of options and combinations before settling on one that works for your book’s needs.)

Left and right indents should be set at zero. Set spacing before and after the paragraph to zero and line spacing to something like multiple 1.1. (This is a measurement you should have already worked out as you were working through margins and trim size. Yet you can always make changes.)

Save your changes.

You now have a style called novel body.

If the manuscript contains only story text and chapter titles, highlight the entire doc (Ctrl+A) and then click on novel body in the styles window. All the text will change to the format you set up for novel body. To modify the style of your chapter titles—because you won’t use the same font size and maybe not the same font—create a new style, this one for titles.

If the manuscript contains a wide variety of  text that will need different styles, and if there will be a lot of text in one or more of those styles, you could still change them all first to your body style, but you don’t have to. Still, this may be the quickest way to start adding styles.

For chapter titles, you may want to center the titles and change the font and font size. You will want to start a new page with every new chapter, place the chapter title partway down the page, and include a few line spaces after the title and before the chapter’s text begins.

You can do all of that with styles.

Create a new style, just as you did the first one. Name it chapter title or something similar. After choosing the font and font size and centering the text, click on format and then paragraph.

On the indents and spacing tab, find the spacing section near the bottom of the dialogue box. This is where you’ll enter the space requirements for spacing before and after the chapter titles.

Try something like 100 points before to get started. The actual amount of space you’ll want before your title will depend on the look you want, the page dimensions, the size of your title font (and the amount of space the chapter titles take up), and the amount of space you want between the chapter title and the header and between the title and the first line of the chapter.

Play around a bit—you can always change this later.

The size of your header may also affect where your title begins, so keep that in mind. (We won’t get into headers in this article, but don’t forget that your print book will likely contain headers and/or footers.)

Next, try something like 24 points after. The is the amount of space between your title and the first line of the chapter. Again you’ll want to play around with the way this looks. Print test pages to get a more accurate sense of what a printed page would look like. Make the space between your title bigger or smaller, depending on the look you want to create. (Keep in mind that chapter titles, especially in nonfiction, may be more than one line long. Longer titles may require a smaller font or may mean you’ll need to start the chapter title higher on the page.)

What this style setting does is locate your chapter title in the same place on every page. You won’t have to adjust the title using paragraph breaks (which you’ll never want to do now that you know how to add space before and after titles).

While you’re in the paragraph dialogue box, click the line and page breaks tab. Under pagination, click page break before. With this option checked, you’ve told Word to begin a new page at every line of text that uses the chapter title style. And that means you don’t have to manually insert page breaks. Be sure to save (okay) your changes.

As an alternative to creating your own style from scratch, you can use existing styles or you can rename and/or modify existing styles.

We won’t go into all the options you have for finding the style list and for modifying styles, but one detail that you will need to know about is the style type. You’ll find this in the create new styles dialogue box. Style type is in the properties section. You have options for character, paragraph, table and a few other choices.

When you create a new style, you’ll need to decide whether the style will apply to a character or a paragraph (or one of the other options). (You’re able to modify the style type of a style that you create, but you can’t modify the style type for one of Word’s default styles.)

If the style is set to paragraph and you use the style on even a single word in a paragraph, the entire paragraph is formatted to that style.

If the style is set to character, only the highlighted characters or words will be formatted to the style. So if you want to use small caps for the first three or four words of a chapter (or maybe the first line), you wouldn’t want the entire paragraph to be formatted with small caps. In this case you’d set up the style type for character, not paragraph.

You can modify font styles by right-clicking the style name in the styles list and choosing modify and then changing font or paragraph details, or you can change text in the document first. If you change a section of text first, highlight the newly formatted text and then right click on the font style you want to change in the style list. (Once you highlight text, the font style in the styles pane should also be highlighted.) Click update [style name] to match selection. This will update all sections of text using that style.

This gives you a couple ways of modifying styles—through changing the text first and then updating the style or changing the style through a dialogue box and then applying that style to a section of text.

Keep in mind that when you modify a style, all instances of that style in the text will also change. If you need to modify a style for only some sections of text but need to keep the first font style as well, add a new style based on the other style and then apply that new style only to the text that requires that style.

Say that most of your body text will be the same but you’ve got it set to indent at the beginning of every paragraph. What do you do for paragraphs that aren’t indented, such as those at the beginning of a chapter and after a scene break? Create a new style for those. Everything will be the same between the styles except for the indent. You might call this new style no-indent first line. (The more styles you have, the more you’ll appreciate how specific you should be when you name them.)

For nonfiction, you may have dozens of styles—example text, table headings, bulleted text, image descriptions, indexes, text with extra spacing, and much more.

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You can use font styles with any kind of document, but you definitely want styles in place when you format for print. (Formatting for e-books may require a different setup.) Set your styles up when you’re writing or wait until the manuscript is finished, but be prepared to work with styles. They give consistency to the text and will make formatting for print—whether done by you or a formatter—easier and faster. Font styles also allow you to do away with extra formatting that you’ve added willy-nilly throughout a document. Use styles so that every instance of one particular type of text is formatted the same as all others.

You can even save your font styles and manuscript setup as a template that you can use for other book projects.

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Extra tip: You know how you get all kinds of wacky formatting when you copy and paste from the Internet? Use styles to clear that odd formatting. Highlight the text and click clear all on the styles list. The apply the style(s) you want for the text.

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В Microsoft Office Word есть шрифты на любой вкус. Чтобы нестандартно оформить текст или напечатать красивую листовку, используйте оригинальную каллиграфию или графический объект. Но встроенные возможности программы меркнут в сравнении с тысячами разнообразных стилей, которые можно скачать в сети. Если вам не хватает того, что есть в офисе, узнайте, как установить шрифт в Ворд.

Где найти новый шрифт

Существуют целые сервера, на которых выложены коллекции бесплатной каллиграфии. Там сразу можно посмотреть, как будут выглядеть буквы и цифры. Вы подберёте печатные знаки под любые нужды. Доступна даже имитация рукописного ввода.

Перед тем как добавить шрифт в Word, его надо найти в интернете. Скачивайте файлы только из надёжных источников. Есть несколько проверенных сайтов. Например, «Fontspace» или «Xfont». После загрузки каллиграфию можно будет установить в Ворд. Если вы хотите посмотреть весь ассортимент, сделайте следующее:

1. Откройте любой поисковик.
2. Введите запрос «Скачать шрифт для Word». На первых страницах будут самые популярные сервисы. Можете задать конкретные параметры: «Готические буквы», «Фигурные символы», «Старославянская кириллица» и тому подобное. Всегда найдётся какой-нибудь новый, никем не используемый стиль.
3. Зайдите на понравившийся сайт.
4. Не загружайте исполняемые файлы с расширением .EXE — скорее всего, это вирус или другая вредоносная программа. Каллиграфия для Ворд имеет формат .TTF (True Type Font) или .OTF, а коллекции стилей хранятся в архивах .ZIP или .RAR.
5. Если вы знаете, какой шрифт вам нужен, вбейте в строку поиска его название вместе с фразой «Скачать для Word». Так вы быстрее найдёте то, что хотите.

Лучше брать архив со стилями, а не качать по одному файлу. Вы сможете добавить несколько видов печатных знаков и уже в самой программе посмотреть, что вам подходит.

Когда вы нашли каллиграфию, можно разбираться, как вставить шрифт в Word.

1. Распакуйте архив со стилями, если качали их в сжатом виде. Для этого надо установить архиватор. Подойдёт WinZip или WinRar. Кликните правой кнопкой мыши по файлу с коллекцией и в выпавшем списке выберите «Извлечь». Теперь вы можете копировать и перемещать данные, которые хранились в архиве. Чтобы посмотреть, как выглядят символы, откройте один из файлов с каллиграфией. И для этого не надо открывать Ворд.
2. Перейдите в Пуск — Панель управления. В разделе «Оформление и персонализация» кликните значок «Шрифты». Он открывает папку со стилями символов в Word. В неё также можно войти через С:WindowsFonts. Чтобы лучше ориентироваться в панели управления, в меню «Просмотр» (находится в правом верхнем углу) выберете подходящие настройки отображения.
3. Скопируйте скачанные файлы с каллиграфией в папку «Fonts» (не сам архив, а извлечённые из него данные). Новый вид символов должен появиться и в Office. Некоторые из них уже могут быть в системе. В таком случае появится диалоговое окно, предлагающее заменить имеющиеся печатные знаки. Не соглашайтесь, чтобы случайно не удалить «родные» стили офиса.

Если не получилось добавить их таким образом, попробуйте другой способ.

1. Откройте папку с загруженной каллиграфией.
2. Кликните по одному из файлов правой кнопкой мыши.
3. Нажмите «Установить».

После этого стили точно отобразятся в Word.

Как добавить шрифты в файл Word

Если вы решите поработать с текстом на компьютере, на котором отсутствует используемая вами каллиграфия, она не отобразится. Но можно добавить стиль в прямо документ.

1. Нажмите синюю кнопку «Файл». В Office 2007 это меню вызывается кликом на логотип в левой верхней части окна.
2. Выберете «Параметры», раздел «Сохранение».
3. Галочку рядом с пунктом «Внедрять шрифты в файл».

Лучше активировать эту опцию, если вы используете не только системные стили. У вас ведь не будет возможности установить свою каллиграфию на чужой ПК.

Как узнать название шрифта

Вам понравился внешний вид символов, но вы не знаете название этого дизайна? И как загрузить шрифты в Word, если вы не можете их найти? Не надо ходить по сайтам, надеясь случайно наткнуться на нужные символы. Название легко узнать. Для этого существуют специальные программы и даже целые сайты.

• What The Font. Популярный и надёжный сервис. Определяет вид каллиграфии по картинке. Найденный стиль можно сразу же скачать и установить в Word. Ресурс имеет свой форум. Если поиск по базе данных ничего не дал, можете спросить совета у других пользователей.
• Расширение для браузера Google Chrome. Сканирует HTML-код страницы и выдаёт название.
• Определяет шрифт, задавая вопросы о его внешнем виде. Если вы примерно представляете, что ищите, но конкретной информации у вас нет — этот ресурс подойдёт.
• Bowfin Printworks. Здесь можно подобрать стиль вплоть до мельчайших деталей. Спрашивает о форме каждого символа.
• Сообщество людей, которые занимаются дизайном каллиграфии или просто в ней разбираются. Надо создать тему и вставить рисунок с символами. Пользователи форума помогут найти нужный стиль.
• WhatTheFont для мобильных устройств. Сфотографируйте слово — приложение определит, какой это стиль.

Если вы увидели интересную каллиграфию в интернете или хотите расширить возможности Office, разберитесь, как установить новый шрифт в Word. Нестандартными надписями можно разбавить скучный текст. Их используют для листовок, поздравлений, открыток, презентаций. Их существуют тысячи — вы обязательно найдёте подходящий.