MS Word - Making the Font Bold, Italicized and Underlined

While creating documents in Microsoft Word application, one may need to emphasize some specific words/phrases by making them bold, underlined, or italicized. Certain grammatical constructs also require the user to bold, underline, or italicize some text. One can easily make the text bold, underline, and italicize using MS Word. These features can also be combined used. In other words, one can bold, and/or underline, or/and italicize a single piece of text.


How to Bold/Italicize/Underline using the Dialog Box Launcher?

  1. Select the word/phrase/sentence to be made bold/underlined/italicized
  2. Now, choose the 'Home' tab
  3. After that, click the dialog box launcher in the Font group
  4. The Font dialog box will appear
  5. Click Bold/Italicize/Underline in the Font Style box (Note: It is possible to see the effect of the action in the Preview window)
  6. To remove the Bold/Italicize/Underline, click 'Regular'
  7. Click 'OK' for closing the dialog box
  8. Click anywhere in the text area for removing the highlighting

How to Bold/Italicize/Underline using the Ribbon?

  1. Select the word/phrase/sentence to be made bold/underlined/italicized
  2. Now, choose the 'Home' tab
  3. Click the Bold/Italicize/Underline Button in the Font group.
  4. To remove the Bold/Italicize/Underline, you can select the text and then click the Bold/Italicize/Underline button again
  5. Click anywhere in the text area for removing the highlighting

How to Bold/Italicize/Underline using the Mini Toolbar?

  1. Select the word/phrase/sentence to be made bold/underlined/italicized
  2. Right-click
  3. The Mini toolbar will appear
  4. Click Bold/Italicize/Underline

How to Bold/Italicize/Underline using Keys?

  1. Select the word/phrase/sentence to be made bold/underlined/italicized
  2. Press Ctrl+b for bold (hold the Ctrl key while pressing b). Press Ctrl+I for italic (hold the Ctrl key while pressing i). Press Ctrl+u for underline (hold the Ctrl key while pressing u)
  3. To remove Bold/Italicize/Underline, press the keys again
  4. Click anywhere in the text area for removing the highlighting

Bold, Italicize & Underline - All Three using the Dialog Box Launcher

  1. First of all, select the word/phrase/sentence to be made bold, underlined & italicized
  2. Now, choose the 'Home' tab
  3. Then, click the dialog box launcher in the 'Font' group
  4. The Font dialog box will appear
  5. In the Font Style box, click Bold Italic (Note: The effect of the selection can be seen in the preview window. For turning off Bold Italic, click Regular)
  6. In the Underline box, click to open the pull-down menu. Click the type of underline that is required to be used (Note: For removing underline, select 'None' from the pull-down menu)
  7. Click OK for closing the dialog box
  8. Click anywhere in the text area for removing the highlighting

Bold, Italicize & Underline - All Three using the Ribbon

  1. First of all, select the word/phrase/sentence to be made bold, underlined & italicized
  2. Now, choose the 'Home' tab
  3. First, click the Bold Button in the Font group. Then, click the Italic Button in the Font group. And after that, click the Underline Button in the Font group.
  4. Click anywhere in the text area for removing the highlighting

Bold, Italicize & Underline - All Three using the Keys

  1. First of all, select the word/phrase/sentence to be made bold, underlined & italicized
  2. Press Ctrl+b (for bold). Press Ctrl+i (for italic). Press Ctrl+u (for underline) (Note: One can remove all this formatting by highlighting the text and pressing Ctrl+spacebar)
  3. Click anywhere in the text area for removing the highlighting