How to Make Periods Bigger in Microsoft Word

Help you make your punctuation pop

When you’re creating a Word document, you might use a font style that makes the periods look too small or simply want them to be more apparent when you print your document. We’ll show you a few ways to make periods bigger in Microsoft Word.

Manually Adjust the Size of Periods in Word

If you have only certain periods that you want to adjust, it’s as easy as changing the font size for each one. You have more than one method to change the font size depending on your preference.

You can also select a period and use theIncrease Font Sizebutton which is also in theFontsection of the ribbon on theHometab. If necessary, you can continually use the button to increase the size even more.

Maybe you’d like to make additional font changes along with the period size. In this case, you can use the Font dialog box.

In Word on Windows, you can also use theFont Sizedrop-down box in the floating toolbar. Select a period and the toolbar will display.

Automatically Adjust the Size of Periods in Word

If you prefer to change the size of all periods in your Word document, you don’t have to do this one by one, which is time-consuming.Using Find and Replaceand the feature’s advanced options, you can increase the size of every period.

You should then see all periods in your document using the size you picked.

While there isn’t a current setting tochange the default fontsize of punctuation marks in Microsoft Word, these methods work perfectly for increasing the size of the periods along with commas or question marks in your document.

Now that you know how to make periods bigger in Word, look athow to apply small caps to fonts.

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How to Make Periods Bigger in Microsoft Word#

Manually Adjust the Size of Periods in Word#

Automatically Adjust the Size of Periods in Word#

How to Make Periods Bigger in Microsoft Word

Manually Adjust the Size of Periods in Word

Automatically Adjust the Size of Periods in Word