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Font Colours and Styles

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Figure 1 - Font dialogue box

If viewing a document using Microsoft

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Word the following steps can be taken to change the individual character spacing.

Select all the text in the document using the menu items
Edit
>
Select All
(Shortcut key is
CTRL and A
on the keyboard).
Navigate menu to
Format
>
Font
and select the
Character Spacing
tab. The Font dialogue box (as shown in Figure 1) is displayed.
Use the
Spacing
section to increase or decrease the spacing between the letters.

Figure 2 and Figure 3 show the difference increasing spacing can make to a piece of text.

Figure 2 - Standard letter spacing

Figure 3 - Letter spacing set to 0.7pt

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