If the text material does not fit into the required area of the page, knowing how to make the text smaller will help you out. This command is included in any text program, as well as in well-known graphic and photo editors, Excel spreadsheets and programs for creating multimedia projects. The text can be reduced both with the convenient quick panel and using the keyboard keys.
Instructions
Step 1
Open a well-known text program. It can be a standard "Notepad", no less famous Word Pad, beloved by all Microsoft Office Word, as well as a program for creating periodicals Microsoft Publisher and others. Select the desired area of text that you plan to reduce. All of the above text editors have a special text formatting panel at the top of the working window. It contains service buttons that change the font format, style, size, color and position on the document page. Set the text to the required size - point size, simply by choosing the appropriate numerical value. For example, decrease the font size from "14" to "12".
Step 2
You can set the font size manually if you do not find a suitable value in the list of sizes. If the formatting bar is not displayed, you should enable it. To do this, use the "View" tab, which is in the top menu bar. Click on "View" and turn on "Formatting" in the "Toolbars" section. You can use the keyboard to reduce the font. Select the desired area of text. Press the key combination Ctrl + [. After that, the size of the font and all text as a whole will decrease by exactly 1 point.
Step 3
If you work in a Word, AbiWord or Wordpad, it will be good to use the special "Paragraph" service, since you can make the text smaller there by reducing the line spacing. Open the "Format" menu, the "Paragraph" section. A new service window will open. Next, go to the "Indents and Spacing" tab. In the lower "Spacing" box, set the desired line spacing. Click the Ok button to save the parameters. In graphic and photo editors, the text size is most often changed with the mouse. After inserting a caption into the workspace or onto the image itself, select it with the mouse. Then grab the edge of the dotted line that will surround the text with the mouse. Pull the edge towards the center of the lettering to shrink the text.
