Basic Formatting in Microsoft Word

Tool Bar Set Up

For most normal Word work your Tool Bar should look like the image above. To set it up like this, go to

the View Menu and click Tool Bars. Then click Standard and Formatting.

Adjusting Margins

You do this in the Page Set Up Dialog Box. You get there from the

File Menu (Upper left hand corner of the screen) and select Page Set Up.

To increase a margin just click the upward arrow. To decrease a margin just click the downward arrow. You also can just type in a value. Click OK when done.   Note; If you hit Default after making changes, the changes will be remembered for every subsequent new document you create.

Setting Default Font

	Select Format/ Font Select Font from pull down menu and then hit default.
In the Font Dialog Box on the right. Select a font, a font style and font size Hit Default... Then Hit OK. From this point on, all new documents will use this font setting .