Formatting Text - Lakelands Computing

When doing school work you should choose a sensible, easy to read font such as Calibri, or Arial (or something similar). You should not use fonts like Alphabet Soup or Chiller as they don't look professional (they might be OK for creative work). You should use size 12 or 14 for your main writing and no bigger than 16 for your titles and headings. (Unless of course you, or your target audience need a larger font to read it).

You should use sensible font colours in your written work (black mostly). Your background should be white for most of your work. When you are being creative and using colours you should make sure the writing is easily read against your background. Click here for more on colour schemes.

Try not to overuse emphasis. It should make the important parts of your text stand out. So titles should be bold and underlined. Headings should be bold and keywords maybe bold and italic if you are making them stand out.It can be very effective but too much and it doens't work.

This is simply putting your text to the left, right or centre of the page. Titles are often centred. Dates are often on the right, but most of your work shoud be on the left. Be consistent (keep it the same way) to make your work look neat.

When writing a list of points you want to make it easy to read. To do this you should use bullets. If the list has a set order then you should make it a numbered list.