General Tools: Home
The Home toolbar contains text formatting and alignment commands.
These commands are divided into the following categories.
Clipboard
| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description |
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| Paste | 
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| Pastes the content of the clipboard into a carriage position. |
| Cut | 
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| Cuts the selected content and places it in the clipboard. |
| Copy | 
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| Copies the selected content and places it in the clipboard. |
| Paste Special | 
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| Invokes the Paste Special dialog, allowing you to paste the content of the clipboard with a specified formatting. |
Font
| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description |
|—|—|—|—|
| Font | none | none | Specifies a font for the selected text. |
| Font Size | none | none | Specifies a font size for the selected text. |
| Grow Font | 
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| Increases the font size of the selected text. |
| Shrink Font | 
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| Decreases the font size of the selected text. |
| Change Case | 
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| Changes the case of the selected text to uppercase or lowercase. |
| Bold | 
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| Makes the selected text bold. |
| Italic | 
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| Italicizes the selected text. |
| Underline | 
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| Draws a line under the selected text. |
| Double Underline | 
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| Draws a double line under the selected text. |
| Strikethrough | 
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| Draws a line through the middle of the selected text. |
| Double Strikethrough | 
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| Draws a double line through the middle of the selected text. |
| Superscript | 
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| Makes the selected text smaller and places it above the line of the text. |
| Subscript | 
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| Makes the selected text smaller and places it below the line of the text. |
| Font Color | 
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| Specifies a color for the selected text. |
| Text Highlight Color | 
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| Specifies a highlight color for the selected text. |
| Clear Formatting | 
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| Removes all formatting from the selection, leaving only plain text. |
| Font | none | none | Invokes the Font dialog, allowing you to adjust different font options for the selected text. |
Paragraph
| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description |
|—|—|—|—|
| Bullets | 
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| Converts the selected paragraphs into a bulleted list, or inserts a new bulleted list at the carriage position. |
| Numbering | 
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| Converts the selected paragraphs into a numbered list, or inserts a new numbered list at the carriage position. |
| Multilevel List | 
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| Converts the selected paragraphs into a multilevel list, or inserts a new multilevel list at the carriage position. |
| Decrease Indent | 
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| Decreases the indent level of the paragraph or the hierarchical level of the multilevel list’s items. |
| Increase Indent | 
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| Increases the indent level of the paragraph or the hierarchical level of the multilevel list’s items. |
| Show/Hide ¶ | 
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| Shows or hides paragraph marks and other non-printable characters. |
| Align Text Left | 
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| Aligns the current paragraph to the left. |
| Center | 
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| Centers the selected paragraphs. |
| Align Text Right | 
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| Aligns the selected paragraphs to the right. |
| Justify | 
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| Aligns the text of the selected paragraphs to both the left and right margins, adding extra space between words as necessary. |
| Line Spacing | 
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| Changes the spacing between the lines of the selected paragraphs. The amount of space added before and after the paragraphs can also be specified. |
| Shading | 
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| Specifies a background color for the selected paragraphs. |
| Paragraph | none | none | Invokes the Paragraph dialog, allowing you to adjust different layout options for the selected paragraphs. |
Styles
| Command | Description | |—|—| | Quick Styles | Applies a style to the selected text. A style is a group of formatting options. All options are applied to text or a paragraph at once when you apply a style. Styles allow you to change text and paragraph appearance quicker than setting each formatting option individually. | | Modify Style | Invokes the Modify Style dialog, allowing you to change the formatting options of the selected style. |
Editing
| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description |
|—|—|—|—|
| Find | 
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’ | Invokes the Find and Replace dialog that allows you to find the specified text in a document. |
| Replace | 
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| Invokes the Find and Replace dialog that allows you to find the specified text in a document and replace it with other text. |