Use of Home Tab (Clipboard and Font Keys) in MS Word !!

Home Tab

Clipboard Keys

Paste Button

The process of displaying data at a certain location, after a copy or a cut operation, is called Pasting of Data. It can be quickly done with the help of the Paste Button. 

The Operation of the Paste Button always follows the copy or cut operation. Any text can be copied or moved from one document and pasted in the same or different document.

Cut Button

The Cut Button is used to move any block of text from one location in your document to another. During the cut operation, no duplicate copy of the text is made. Instead, when the text is moved to next location, it gets deleted from its previous location. With the Cut button, text can be moved not only within a document but also from one document to another.

Copy Button

The Copy button is used to make duplicate copy of another block of text. Any text can be copied from one location in your document to another through the copy operation. Copying can be done not only within the Document but also from one Document to another Document.

Format Painter 

The Format painter is used to copy the format of the selected text and copy it to another.

We have to select the text whose Format have to copy. After that click on the Format Painter. Now the cursor turned into the brush of Format Painter, now select the text on which you want to paste that Format. The Format copied on that Text.

Font Keys

Font button

Microsoft Words provides you the various types of Alphabet styles to make you Document Attractive and more representative. In printing Language these types of Alphabet Styles Are Called Fonts. The Font button helps you to Select the desired font for your Document.

Select the text and Then go to the Font Select the Fonts (for e.g.- Arial, Calibri, Algerian, Arabic etc.)

Font Size Button

The Font Size button is used to change the Font Size of the Text. We can Increse Or decrease the size of the Selected Texts.

For this You have to Select the text of which you want to change the font Size.Now go to the Font Size and select the Desired Font Size.

Bold Button

If you want to make any text bolder than others, than Bold Button helps you in this case.

Just select the Required Texts Go to the Bold button and Click on it. The Selected text becomes bolder than others.

Italic Button

If you want to give any text Italic Format, than Italic Button helps you in this case.

Just select the Required Texts Go to the Italic button and Click on it. The Selected text becomes Italic.

Underline Button

In Microsoft Word You have to Highlight some words, For this you can use the Underline tool. 

Just Select the text and click on Underline, The selected text have Underline below.

Strikethrough Button

Sometime while writing we did some mistakes, when these mistakes done in the notebook we just Cut it and move on. Same as we can do this on the Computer's Window Screen, If some word typed Wrong in place of Replacing We can use Strikethrough to show that mistake.

(For Example: Soflne  Softline)

Change Case Button

In Microsoft Word Change Case tool helps us to change the case of the Texts.

For changing the case of the Words: First Select the Words whose you want to change the case > then Go to the change Case Button > 

Options opens: 1. Sentence case

                         2. lowercase

                         3. UPPERCASE

                         4. Captalize Each Word

                         5. tOGGLE cASE

Select the Appropriate Option you want to Apply in your Document.

Text Highlight Color Button

Text Highlight Color Button helps us to Highlight some of the Important Texts, Words, or Lines in our Document. Just select the Text you want to highlight, then go to Text Highlight Color Button

and select the color with you want to highlight the Text, text will be Highlighted.

Font Color Button

The Font Color Button is use to Give the text a different color. 

For this you just select the Text and then click on the Font Color Button and than select the Desired Color you want to give you selected text, color will be applied to the selected text. 

Clear Formatting

Clear Formatting, helps us to clear all the Formatting (Such As: Bold, Italic, Underline, Aligns, Font, Font Size, Highlight etc) of our selected texts. The Texts will be Pasted as a normal texts as it was before. We don't need to clear its format one by one. It is done together by once.

Writer: Mr. Krishan Kumar Saini

Today we have learnt about the Use of Home Tab (Clipboard and Font Keys) in MS Word. Hope this lesson will be helpful for you.