Below we’ve changed the font back to Arial, size 16, and then tried each button in turn. If you place your cursor over each of the buttons, a description of what it does opens. Plus the highlighting tool and the font colour tool, both of which you need to click to cause a drop-down list to appear. Step 7: Now experiment with the font tools, which you’ll find under the font box.

If you click on the other button, it will become smaller. If you click on the button with the bigger ‘A’, the size of your text will get bigger. Next to the number box you’ll see two squares, each one containing a letter ‘A’, one bigger than the other ( see right). Step 6: Here’s a shortcut to changing the size of your letters. By selecting a bigger or smaller number, you can choose how big to make your writing.Ĭlick ’20′ and type ‘Good Morning’ again.

These are the numbers of ‘points’ that letters are measured in. A drop-down list appears that consists of numbers. As you did with the font box arrow, click the arrow in this box. Next to the font box near the top of the screen, you’ll find another box containing a number (’11′ in this example). Step 5: You can also change the size of the letters. Here we’ve chosen ‘Broadway’ as the second font. Step 4: Choose another font, type ‘Good Morning’ again and press ‘Enter’. Step 3: Type ‘Good Morning’ and press the ‘Enter’ key. The name will now appear in the box at the top of the screen. Let’s assume that you’d like to use the ‘Arial’ font. Scroll down the list and you’ll find even more fonts. This particular list consists of all the fonts that you can choose to create your document. When you click on the arrow, it will turn orange and a list will drop down. The arrow indicates that this is a drop-down list. In the third row from the top of the screen, you’ll see a box with a name in it (in this example, ‘Calibri’) and a little downward-pointing arrow.

Step 2: You’re now going to choose a font – the design in which the letters you’ll be typing will appear. This article assumes that you have a PC with Windows 7 installed. WordPad is a text-editing program available in the Microsoft Windows operating system.įollow these step-by-step instructions to use WordPad

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