If selected text is bold, how do you change it so that it is no longer bold?

Important: Some of these steps work only on Android 13 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.

You can also find accessibility settings in Quick Settings, where you can quickly change your preferred text and content settings.

Tip: These settings can also be set up from the start in the setup wizard.

Change display size and text

Important: The font size setting doesn't apply to some apps.

To make your font size smaller or larger:

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Search and select Font size.
3. To change your preferred font size, move the slider left or right.

To make your display size smaller or larger:

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Search and select Display size.
3. To change your preferred display size, move the slider left or right.

Tip: You will find a preview of the change of your font and display sizes after you've set each slider to your preferred size; if you don't like it, reset your settings by tapping Reset settings. Your display size and text preferences will reset to the original setting of your device.

Important: Some apps won't use this setting.

You can use bold font to improve visibility.

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility
   
   Display size and text.
3. Turn Bold text on or off.

High contrast can make text easier to read on your device. This feature changes the text colour to either black or white, depending on the original text colour.

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility
   
   Display size and text.
3. Turn High contrast text on or off.

Colour correction and grayscale settings help your device compensate for colour blindness. 

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility
   
   Colour and motion
   
   Colour correction.
3. Turn Use colour correction on.
4. Choose a correction mode.

Tip: You can make a shortcut for colour correction. Learn about accessibility shortcuts.

Important: Colour inversion reverses the colour on the screen, and applies to everything including media.

Being able to change the style of font can make your document more interesting. Different styles of text such as bold or italics can make text stand out. Underlining can be useful for headings.

This guide explains how to make text bold, italic or underlined in Microsoft Word 2010. Earlier versions of Word will use similar steps or concepts.

You’ll need:

• A computer with Microsoft Word installed.

Follow these step-by-step instructions to format text in Microsoft Word

Step 1: Open an existing Word document or start a new document and type your text.

Step 2: If you’d like to change some of the text that you’ve already typed to a different font, it will need to be selected or highlighted with the mouse first. When the mouse pointer is moved over a text area, the pointer will change from an arrow to a ‘text select’ or ‘I-beam’ icon.

Step 3: Select the text that you wish to edit or change the formatting.

Step 4: To change the selected font to bold, click B in the formatting ribbon at the top of the document.

Step 5: To change the selected font to italics, click I in the formatting ribbon at the top of the document.

Step 6: To change the selected text so that it’s underlined, click U in the formatting ribbon at the top of the document.

Step 7: It’s also possible to change selected text using a combination of keyboard shortcuts, which some people find easier than using the mouse.

Being able to change the style of font can make your document more interesting. Different styles of text such as bold or italics can make text stand out. Underlining can be useful for headings.

This guide explains how to make text bold, italic or underlined in Microsoft Word 2010. Earlier versions of Word will use similar steps or concepts.

You’ll need:

• A computer with Microsoft Word installed.

Follow these step-by-step instructions to format text in Microsoft Word

Step 1: Open an existing Word document or start a new document and type your text.

Step 2: If you’d like to change some of the text that you’ve already typed to a different font, it will need to be selected or highlighted with the mouse first. When the mouse pointer is moved over a text area, the pointer will change from an arrow to a ‘text select’ or ‘I-beam’ icon.

Step 3: Select the text that you wish to edit or change the formatting.

Step 4: To change the selected font to bold, click B in the formatting ribbon at the top of the document.

Step 5: To change the selected font to italics, click I in the formatting ribbon at the top of the document.

Step 6: To change the selected text so that it’s underlined, click U in the formatting ribbon at the top of the document.

Step 7: It’s also possible to change selected text using a combination of keyboard shortcuts, which some people find easier than using the mouse.

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