Alignment
Alignment is a paragraph's relationship to the page's right and left margins.
Border
A border is a line you place around a paragraph or along any one or more of its sides.
Bullet
Each item in a bulleted list is introduced by a small graphic called a bullet. By default, Word uses a small dot as the bullet.
Character Style
Character styles are styles applied to characters only. Character styles can be applied to individual characters, such as a word or a letter.
Font
A font is a complete set of alphabetical characters (including the letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols) based on the same, unique design. Fonts have names such as Times, Helvetica, and Tahoma. Some people use the term typeface when referring to a font.
Font Style
The most commonly used font styles are bold italic, and underline.
Footer
A footer is a line of text that appears at the bottom of each page.
Formatting
Formatting means changing the way a document looks without changing the information within the document.
Header
A header is a line of text that appears at the top of each page in a document.
Indent
The amount of space between a paragraph and the right or left margin is called an indent.
Line spacing
Line spacing is the amount of vertical space between the lines within a paragraph.
Page break
A page break is a marker that indicates the end of the current page and the start of a new one.
Paragraph
A paragraph is any text that is followed by a paragraph mark.
Paragraph spacing
When you reset the amount of spacing before and after a paragraph you are changing the paragraph spacing.
Paragraph style
Paragraph styles can be applied to one or more entire paragraphs.
Point
Paragraph spacing is measured in points. One point equals 1/72 inch.
Shading
Shading appears as a gray or colored background behind the paragraph.
Style
A style is a named set of formatting characteristics. Using styles lets you format individual characters or entire paragraphs with just a few mouse clicks. Styles help you give a consistent look to different parts of a document.
Tab
A tab is an amount of space by which text is indented from the left margin. You can use tabs to align text in various ways. For example, if you place a tab stop one-half inch from the left margin and then press the Tab key, your text will be aligned at that point.