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Introduction

Want a quick keyboard shortcut for increasing or decreasing the font size of text in your Word document?

This How-To Article shows you how.

Change the Font Size

1. Highlight the text you want to change the font size for. (You can do this by clicking and dragging the mouse to select, or by holding the SHIFT key down and using the arrow keys to select.)

2. Press the SHIFT + CTRL + < key combination to decrease the font size.

3. Press the SHIFT + CTRL + > key combination to increase the font size.

4. Continue pressing these key combinations until you find the font size you want.

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