{"id":1420,"date":"2017-07-13T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T23:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-compapp\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1420"},"modified":"2019-10-08T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:36:17","slug":"introduction-basic-text-formatting","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-compapp\/chapter\/introduction-basic-text-formatting\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Basic Text Formatting","rendered":"Introduction to Basic Text Formatting"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: format text in Microsoft Word for clarity.<\/h2>\r\nKnowing how to use Word's formatting tools can help you do your work faster and make your documents more attractive and easy to read.\r\n\r\nCompare the documents below. 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