Stylistic Sets, Ligatures, and Fonts in Word 2010

There is so much available to us in this latest version of Word! Trust me, nobody knows ALL of it, least of all me!

So imagine my surprise when I ran across an article regarding Stylistic Sets and Ligatures! I found myself puzzled and wondering what a ligature was! As it turns out, it’s pretty cool and so I decided that I definitely needed to share this information with my readers.

Follow the steps below to learn about Stylistic Sets and Ligatures:

1. Launch Word 2010 if it is not already open.
2. Open a new document or one that you have already created and saved.
3. On the Home tab of your Ribbon, in the Font group, select Gabriola,
4. Select the text to which you would like to apply Stylistic Sets and click the small button in the lower right corner of the Fontgroup, or click CTRL + D, which will open the Font dialog.
5. Click on the Advanced tab.
6. Under OpenType Features, you will see quite a few styles, designs and ligatures.
7. Use the drop-down arrow under ligatures to select Historical and Discretionary.
8. From Number spacing, select Tabular.
9. Select the Number forms style and lastly, the Stylistic set.

You will see a preview of the selected text in the preview pane.

10. Click OK.

Your selected text has been changed into the specified ligature and stylistic set.

You can now experiment with it.

1. Select your text and click CTRL + D to open the dialog.
2. Under Ligatures, select Historical and Discretionary.
3. Under Number Spacing, select Tabular.
4. Under Number Forms, select Old-Style.
5. Under Stylistic Sets, select 6.

What a difference eh?

If you start keying in text it will automatically have the ligature style.

There are also different number font styles that you can use – Old and Lining Styles.