Learn more about the formatting applied to text in your document with this handy Keyboard Shortcut

If you want to quickly find out what formatting has been applied to any piece of text, click in the text and press Shift + F1. A task pane will open in the right of Word window. This Reveal Formatting task pane displays details about the text format being used for the word that your insertion point is closest to.

With this task pane open you can click on any piece if text to learn more about its formatting.

Helen Bradley

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