Formatting toolbar

The formatting toolbar is a toolbar in Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel that gives the user the ability to change the formatting of selected text.

Options available in the formatting toolbar

• Change the font.
• Change the size of the font.
• Make the text bold, italics, or underline.
• Change the justification.
• Change the style to currency, percent, or comma.
• Increase or decrease the decimal and indent.
• Change the borders.
• Fill (highlight) the text.
• Change the font color.

How to enable the formatting toolbar

If you are running an early version of Word or Excel click View and then Toolbars and from within the Toolbars click Formatting to enable the formatting toolbar.

New versions of Office products no longer have toolbars and instead are using the Ribbon and most of what was found in the Formatting toolbar can now be found in the Home or Write tab of the Ribbon.