![]() Moving back to the fonts section, you can see an area labeled Helvetica Neue. In fact, if you’re not involved in publishing, you probably want to leave the styles panel alone. If you’re new to Word, you want to leave the styles panel alone. Next to that is a formatting section, and the last section involves styles. Next to that is the area we’re focusing on right now: the fonts and typography section. This is where you can cut, paste, and copy your text if you don’t remember the keyboard shortcuts. If you look at the image, you’ll see that we are in the ‘ Home‘ tab, and that there are several other tab options (‘ Insert’, ‘ Design’, ‘ Layout’, etc.). My screenshot below comes from the Mac version of Word, but the Windows and OneDrive versions are nearly identical. You can change most aspects of your fonts by using the toolbar. But it is important to do what your professors say, so Times New Roman it is! (If you don’t see that as an option, Times is an acceptable substitute.) There’s no real reason to prefer one over the other, although generally speaking serif fonts are seen as easier to read and sans-serif are ‘cleaner’ or more modern. A serif font, like Times New Roman, includes small lines at the top and bottom of letters, like calligraphy Ī sans-serif font, like ours, doesn’t. ![]() But the most recent versions of Microsoft Word, as well as the online version in OneDrive, use a more web-friendly sans-serif font. The most common instructions professors give about writing is that it should be in 12-point Times New Roman font. Later posts will include more advanced features, such as word and image wrapping, adding pagination, tables, and hyperlinks, as well as book-length tools that will be useful to graduate students: how to set up chapters and an index, and when to use the advanced find/replace.Īre there other things you’d like to know how to do in Word? Let us know by leaving a comment! Since the Word Help files are often less-than-helpful, this post will walk through the three most important features a student should know about word: how to change fonts, check your word count, and double-space. It’s good to know how the software works. But, for better or worse, Microsoft is still the industry standard for writing, both in academia and elsewhere. Since Chromebooks use Google Docs for word processing, this is perhaps unsurprising. As the Chromebook overtakes the K-12 market, I’ve begun to see something strange happen in my classroom: students who don’t know how to use the most basic features of word-processing software such as Microsoft Word.
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