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| Serif Font | A font that has small attributes at the tips of each letter, often used in the body of a letter or report. |
| Sans Serif Font | A font that does not include the attributes at the tips of each letter, commonly used in title texts. |
| Bold | used to emphasize a specific word |
| Italics | used to indicate book titles and other published works |
| Underline | used to indicate links to web pages and should be reserved for that purpose in most cases |
| Accent Symbol | used to indicate emphasis during pronunciation |
| Style | a format tool used to apply global font formats to text |
| Subscript | used respectively in chemical definitions |
| Bullets/Numbers | are used to list items |
| Cut and Paste | is a tool used in paragraph formatting that allows the user to move text from one location to another |
| Tabs | used to align and organize data into groups and subgroups |
| Tables | used to arrange text in columns and rows and are helpful in presenting, organizing, and clarifying information |
| Margins | the amount of white space around the sides of a document |
| Landscape | wider than tall |
| Portrait | Taller than Wide |
| Headers and Footers | add global information to a document, such as page numbers and document titles |
| Soft page break | occurs automatically through the word wrap feature of the word processing software and text is simply continued to the next page when the space on the previous page is exhausted |
| Hard Page Break | is performed manually when a new page is needed for a break or change in content |
| Columns | are used to format text for documents such as newspapers and newsletters |
| Borders | are used in page formatting to add lines around text or graphic images |