Question

What is formatting? Discuss the different types of formatting that you can have using a word processor

Answer 1

Explanation:

Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk or USB flash drive for initial use. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems.

Answer 2

Explanation:

• Formatting the text in MS Word has tasks such as bolding the text, italicizing it, altering the size of the font or color, and so on.  
• We can do formatting in three different types. They are 1) characters, 2) paragraphs, 3) sections.

Characters – We can select the formatting command on the Home tab. We can choose size of the font, bold them, underlined, superscripted or subscripted, or changing any color.

Paragraphs – We can format the paragraph by aligning the text indent, line spacing, line breaks, and so on.

Sections – In page setup dialog box, we can change the margins, size of the page, orientation, adding number of columns per page, and so on.