The format menu allows you to apply different styles to the text in your document. The format menu provides the following commands:

Menu Name    Menu Purpose

Font    This menu allows you to choose the font of the text in your document.

Paragraph    This allows you to choose formatting for your paragraph. For example, you can choose how the paragraph is indented, whether there is a hanging indent and a range of other options.

Bullets and Numbering    This feature allows you to have bullets or numbered paragraphs in your document.

Document    This item allows you to choose formatting options that apply to the entire document such as the size of the paper or whether it is orientation is portrait or landscape.

Columns    This feature allows you to set up your document so that there are multiple columns of text on the page.

Headers and Footers    By selecting this option, you are presented with a series of options relating to the headers and footers in your document

Tabs    Choosing this menu item allows you to set various options relating to the tabs in your document.

Change Case    This option is useful if you ever want to change the case of text in your document from all lower-case, into all upper-case or visa-versa. It will change the case of all characters in a selected section of text in a single operation.

Align    This feature allows you to determine the alignment of your text - whether it is centered, left-aligned, right-aligned or justified.

Text Formatting    This allows you to choose whether the text is underlined, bolded, or has a number of other possible formats applied to it.

Background    This allows you to choose the background colour of your document.

Style    This allows you to define the various styles that are available to you. A style is a predefined set of formats that can be applied to a piece of text in a single operation.