Knowledge of formatting tips helps you make your document eye-catchy and readable. A well formatted document encourages reader to read the whole document easily. TSDP provides medical writing training for preparation of well-formatted research articles and regulatory documents.

1. WORD
FORMATTING

2. INTRODUCTION
• Formatting refers to the organization and arrangement of a
document
• It is a pre-requisite for making your document attractive to a reader
• Formatting is important for two reasons:
 Gives a consistent look to the document
 Makes your document readable

3. WHAT ALL YOU CAN DO WHILE FORMATTING?
• With formatting tools in word, one can change the font and color of
the text
• You can make your text bold, underline it, or italicize for
emphasizing the text
• Amount of space can be changed between two lines in a text
• You can also change paragraph alignment, set paragraph tabs and
indents, create a bulleted list etc.
• Some formatting tips can help you format the document quickly

4. SETTING LINE SPACING
• You can easily set the spacing between two lines as follows:
 For single-line spacing, click “Ctrl + 1”
 For double-line spacing, click “Ctrl + 2”
 For 1.5-line spacing, click “Ctrl + 5”

5. REMOVING ALL FORMATTING
• To remove disorganized
formatting in a document, select
the text and click the button as
shown in the screenshot
• Formatting will be removed and
you will be left with just plain text

6. CONFIGURING PASTE OPTIONS
• To customize the paste option,
click on the paste icon present
below the “File” (at the top left)
• From there, you can configure
your paste options as per your
requirement
• This will help you to do things like
disable hyperlinking when pasting
and other formatting options

7. INTERESTING SHORT-CUTS
Adding the Date
• To add the date in a document automatically, simply click
“Alt + Shift + D”
Double Underline
• If one line of underline isn't emphatic enough, you can double underline
the text by clicking “Ctrl + Shift + D”

8. THANKS!