This means that except in a few specialty fonts, no single character in the Standard English alphabet will have the full height of the font, because no letter uses both ascenders and descenders. Font sizes are measured from the top of the ascenders on a letter (ascenders are the portions of a letter that point upwards) to the bottom of the descenders on a letter (descenders are the portions that point downwards). What you really end up with actually depends on the font you selected. Word supports font sizes from 1 point to 1638 points, which means you can use fonts that are 1/72 of an inch all the way up to 22-3/4 inches.ĭon't these sizes deceive you, however? You might expect that if you set a font size to 144 points, you will end up with letters two inches high.

You specify the size of font to use in points, a typographical measure that is roughly equivalent to 1/72 of an inch. Each character in your document can be a different font size, if you desire. When you are formatting text in your document, one of the things that you can specify is the font size of that text.

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