Name of the Task:
Making the text bold, italic, and underline in MS Word Document.
Introduction:
In editing any document such as assignment, homework, business proposals,
research proposals or articles, we frequently make portion of text bold, italic and
underlined.
Bold:
Making text bold means creating text thicker than standard. Bold, bold face,
or bold font is any text that is darkened to help emphasize a remark or comment
For example:
Standard text: Dhaka City
Bold text: Dhaka City
It highlights the text so that it catches the viewers’ eyes easily.
Italic:
In order to emphasize any term or text in writing we use italic format. A typeface
with letters slanted slightly to the right. Italic type is used to emphasize words as
well as for decoration. Most, but not all, fonts have an italic typeface.
Standard text: Dhaka City
Italic text: Dhaka City
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Figure 1: Making text bold.
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Figure 2: Making text italic.
Figure 3: Making text underlined.
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Underline
An underline is a section of text in a document where the words have a line
running beneath them. For example, this text should be underlined. Underlined text
is commonly used to help draw attention to text. Today, underlines are commonly
used to represent a hyperlink on a web page.
Standard text: Dhaka City
Underlined text: Dhaka City
Procedure:
1. Let us select (by pressing Shift+ right arrow or by mouse) the desired
potion of the text which we want to make bold, italic and underline.
2. To make the selected text bold, we press “Ctrl+B” from keyboard (See
Figure 1).
3. To make the selected text italic, we press “Ctrl+I” from keyboard (See
Figure 2).
4. To make the selected text underline, we press “Ctrl+U” from keyboard
(See Figure 3).
5. We can make text bold, italic and underline in various combination in
this way.
Result: The desired text will be bold faced, italic and underlined.
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