In Microsoft Office Word, you can apply a format to selected text, or you can quickly and easily format an entire document to give it a professional and modern look by applying a document theme. A document theme is a set of formatting choices that can include a color scheme (a set of colors), a font scheme (a set of heading and body text fonts), and an effects scheme (a set of lines and fill effects).What do you want to do?

Change the text size

In Office Word, you can use the formatting options Mini toolbar to quickly format text. The Mini toolbar appears automatically when you select text. It also appears with the menu when you select text and then right-click.

  1. Select the text that you want to change, and move your pointer to the Mini toolbar that appears with your text selection.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • To make the text larger, click Grow Font. Or press CTRL+SHIFT+>.
    • To make the text smaller, click Shrink Font. Or press CTRL+SHIFT+<.

    Note You can also specify a font size on the Home tab, in the Font group.

Apply a predefined font theme

You can change the fonts in your document by selecting a new font theme. When you choose a new font theme, you change the heading and body text font for the document that you are working on.

  1. On the Page Layout tab, in the Themes group, click Theme Fonts.

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    Note If you want to change the font, colors, and effects in your document, click Themes instead of Theme Fonts.

  2. Under Built-In, click the predefined font theme that you want to use.

Create a custom font theme

  1. On the Page Layout tab, in the Themes group, click Theme Fonts. word ribbon image
  2. Click Create New Theme Fonts.
  3. Select the fonts and sizes that you want to use in the Heading font and Body font boxes.

    The sample is updated with the fonts that you select.

  4. In the Name box, type a name for the new font theme.
  5. Click Save.