Through the font formatting operations, you apply various font formatting characteristics to the desired text fragments.
Note that before formatting a portion of text, you might need to select it.
When the document contains no selection, and the Format without selection option is on the Tools | Options... menu command, the Edit tab), the font formatting operations will be applied to the word containing the cursor.
When this option is off, no immediate formatting is performed but the new formatting would be applied to any new text you will type.
You can use the Format Brush to format your documents.
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