Open Sans comes in lots of weights; we have them all installed. However in Word the Light weight shows up as a distinct typeface called ‘Open Sans Light’. The typeface called ‘Open Sans’ just has the Regular and Bold weights. Obviously the font showing up as ‘Open Sans Light’ doesn't have a bold weight. Make text bold. Select the text that you want to make bold, and do one of the following: Move your pointer to the Mini toolbar above your selection and click Bold. Click Bold in the Font group on the Home tab. Type the keyboard shortcut: CTRL+B.

Font Formatting Sometimes users want to specify or change the appearance of a group of words or characters, or even of a single word or character, and they are not familiar enough with all of Word's font formatting options to know how to achieve the effect that they are seeking. Although most users are probably familiar with some different font families and sizes and with the italic and bold typefaces, many users do not know how to determine and apply the settings that are needed to add a colored background to their text or to type the name of the programming language C #, the formula for the area of a circle A = π r 2, or the chemical formula for water H 20.

The graphical user interface (GUI) provides ways to apply the various font formatting options (or character formatting options) to your text. Many of these options are displayed directly in the Font group on the Home tab of the Ribbon and on the contextual toolbar that appears when you right-click within text. Additional options are available in the Font dialog box, which you can open by clicking the Font dialog box launcher ( ) in the lower right-hand corner of the Font group on the Home tab. You can also open the Font dialog box without reaching for your mouse by pressing Ctrl+D.

The Font dialog box has two tabs. • Font • Character Spacing The font formatting options that you can configure on the Font tab in the Font dialog box influence the appearance of the individual characters in your text. These font formatting options include the following. Keyboard shortcuts for use in font formatting Key Action Ctrl+Shift+A Toggles changing the selected text to all capital letters.

Ctrl+B Ctrl+Shift+B Toggles bold formatting. Ctrl+Shift+C Copies the formatting of the selected text. Ctrl+D Opens the Font dialog box with the focus at the Font combo box (see also Ctrl+Shift+F and Ctrl+Shift+P).

Ctrl+Shift+D Toggles double underlining. Ctrl+Shift+F Opens the Font dialog box with the focus at the Font combo box. Ctrl+Shift+H Formats text as hidden. Ctrl+I Ctrl+Shift+I Toggles italic formatting.

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Ctrl+Shift+K Toggles small caps. Ctrl+Shift+P Opens the Font dialog box with the focus at the font Size combo box. Ctrl+Shift+Q Applies the Symbol font. Ctrl+Shift+S Opens the Apply Styles task pane for applying, creating, or modifying styles and formatting (use Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S to modify a style without applying it to the selection). Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S Opens the Styles pane.

Ctrl+U Ctrl+Shift+U Toggles underlining. Ctrl+Shift+V Applies the formatting previously copied using Ctrl+Shift+C to the selected text. Ctrl+Shift+W Toggles underlining whole words. Ctrl+Shift+Z Resets the font formatting to the default font formatting of the applied style. If support for Chinese is not enabled in Windows, Ctrl+Space also does this.

Shift+F1 Shows or hides the formatting properties in the task pane. Shift+F3 Changes the text to all capital letters, to all small letters, or to a capital letter at the beginning of every word. F4 Redoes the last action performed.

Ctrl+Space Resets the font formatting to the default font formatting of the applied style (same as Ctrl+Shift+Z). If support for Chinese is enabled in Windows, Ctrl+Space switches the character input mode. Ctrl+= Toggles subscript formatting. Ctrl++ Toggles superscript formatting. Ctrl+[ Decreases the font size by 1 pt. Ctrl+Shift+> Increases the font size by 1 pt up to 12 pt or by 2 pt above 12 pt.

Ctrl+] Increases the font size by 1 pt. Quick Reference for this Page After quickly listing the various types of formatting that can be applied to characters, words, phrases, and larger blocks of text, this page emphasizes that font formatting can often be a highly repetitive task. In such cases, you can benefit greatly from using keyboard shortcuts, which let you work like a by eliminating the need to move your hands away from the keyboard and your eyes away from your work. This page also describes how to use the feature to apply specific formatting to a word or phrase throughout a document, how to add, and how to create formatting effects, such as an and a, that are not available as font formatting options in the Font dialog box. Search Office Sites You can search the websites that have the most useful and valuable information about using Microsoft Office products by using the Search Office Sites search box in the banner. Click here to start your search.