Generally, you can find almost everything you need to know from the online help. Formatting your document Below is a picture of the Word 97 Standard and Formatting toolbars. The Formatting toolbar in Word allows you to change fonts and font size, to bold and underline and to center text, among other things. You can surmise from the symbols on the various buttons the functions that each performs. If you leave the pointer on a button for a few seconds, the function of that button will appear in a small box below the pointer.
Word offers a wide range of character formats, such as fonts, font sizes, bold, and italic.
The quickest and easiest way to apply fonts, font sizes, bold, italic, and underlining is to use the toolbar buttons. It may be helpful to make sure that you are working with the toolbars standard to Word, namely the formatting toolbar and standard toolbar. To show these and any other toolbars, you can right-click on any toolbar and highlight the desired toolbar to select it. A shortcut menu will pop up, and you can select or deselect any toolbar to show or hide it. You can also go under the View menu and select Toolbars.