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In Microsoft Form, you can add bold, italic, underline, color, size, numbers, and bullets to your text using the formatting feature offered by Microsoft Forms to make your text bigger, colorful, and organize.

Can you bold text on Microsoft Forms?

Yes, you can bold your text in Microsoft Forms, and it is very easy. Microsoft offers tools to format your text in your forms such as bold, italic, underline, color, font size, numbers, and bullets. In this tutorial, we will explain the process of formatting the text in your form.

How do I change font size in Forms?

Microsoft Form offers a few font sizes to change the size of your text, such as large, medium, and small, so the users can change the font size of the text in their forms to the font size they want.

To format text in Microsoft Forms, follow the steps below.

1. Open the form you want to edit in Microsoft Forms
2. Double-tap or highlight the text in the form.
3. Select either bold, italic, underline, color, size, numbers, or bullets to your text.
4. See the result

Open the form you want to format in Microsoft Forms.

On the form, Double-tap the text in the form or highlight the text.

You will see some formatting tools pop up.

To bold the text, click the Bold button (B) or press Ctrl + B on the keyboard.

To add italic to the text, click the Italic button (I) or press Ctrl + I on the keyboard.

To add an underline under the text, click the Underline button (U) or press Ctrl + U on the keyboard.

To add colors to the text, click the Font Color button and choose the color you want.

To add a font size to the text, click the Font Size button and select the font size you want, such as Large, Medium, and Small.

To add numbers to the text, click the Numbering button.

To add bullets to the text, click the Bullet button.

We hope this tutorial helps you understand how to format text in Microsoft Form.

Microsoft last week revealed a price hike in Microsoft Certifications that'll go into effect throughout many parts of the world starting in July.

The price hikes will affect the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD), Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA).

Microsoft said it doesn't expect to increase the price of Microsoft Certified Master (MCM), Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA), Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA), and Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exams.

Microsoft isn't raising the price of exams uniformly around the world: The retail price for Microsoft Certification exams in the U.S. and Canada will rise from $125 to $150, but it'll remain unchanged in counties like Ireland, Spain and Greece, whose economies are still shaky.

Microsoft says it'll use the price hike to improve the Microsoft Certification program with new certifications and question types, as well as frequent exam updates and better exam security.

The move came as a surprise to partners, and those who've been adjusting their businesses to meet the new terms of Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) said the timing is unfortunate. However, Microsoft plans to offer partners "substantial savings" on exam fees for Microsoft Certifications required to attain MPN competencies. Details on these offers are on the agenda for this year's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), to be held from July 10-14 in Los Angeles.

MPN adds a great deal of weight to the technical skills partners carry, and many have had to make difficult choices as part of their migration to MPN. In MPN, the old Gold and Silver rankings are now being used as indicators of a partner's skill level within 29 distinct MPN technology competencies.

To obtain Gold, partners must hire or contract with four Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs), and the requirement for Silver is two MCPs. This is in addition to the business model changes Microsoft is pressing partners to make as part of the software giant's march in cloud computing.

In light of all these changes, it's understandable that some partners would be irked by the addition of an additional cost burden.

"Not only are we eating administrative costs to realign ourselves with Microsoft, we’re coming off a tough few years of lackluster IT spending and dealing with cloud solutions that are trying to capture a significant amount of value from the channel ecosystem," said Travis Fisher, executive vice president at Inacom Information Systems, a Salisbury, Md.-based solution provider. "I can’t imagine a worse time for increased certification costs to take effect than right now."

Next: Certifications Are Just Part Of Microsoft Partners' Costs

Microsoft, through its testing partner Prometric, offers a 30 percent discount to partners that purchase an 8-pack of exam vouchers, which includes one free "re-take" for those who don't pass the first time. There are seven exams required for the MCSE certification, which adds up to $1,050 without the discount.

But as Fisher notes, exams costs are only part of the equation when it comes to obtaining a Microsoft certification. When everything is taken into account, he estimates that Inacom invests around $10,000 per person for certifications every three to five years.

"Let’s be honest: The real costs of obtaining any certification come in the form of boot camps, which cost around $3,500 per week, payroll expenses, and lost productivity," Fisher said.

It's unlikely that higher certification costs are going to dissuade Microsoft partners that have begun their move to MPN, particularly because like MPN itself, the exam price hike will likely give partners better visibility and differentiation within the Microsoft channel.

"This will definitely raise costs in the short-term, but fewer partners will achieve and maintain these certs, allowing them to differentiate themselves as experts in a way that other partners can’t," said Rick Oppedisano, executive director of partner and channel Sales at Azaleos, a Seattle-based Microsoft solution provider.

Dave Sobel, CEO of Evolve Technologies, a Fairfax, Va.-based Microsoft partner, was surprised by the price hike, but says it won't affect his company's MPN plans.

"It's unfortunate that it's coming in the midst of our move over to MPN, and it matters because we're trying to get a bunch of people trained," he said. "But Microsoft has long been quite generous in giving training incentives to partners, and this isn't an unreasonable increase."

Just before Microsoft stopped taking new or renewed subscriptions to its TechNet service this week, the company quietly announced yet another change that could impact many IT pros. In an email sent to many Microsoft Certification community members, the company announced it will no longer offer Masters level certification exams as of Oct. 1.

The same email, as posted on the TechNet blog of Microsoft Senior Consultant Neil Johnson, added that the company will no longer offer Masters and Architect training anymore. People who have already reached the Masters level of certification from Microsoft will still be able to claim that credential and will not need to be re-certified.

The Microsoft Connect message board has been one of the places where community members have written and posted their displeasure on this move. However, Tim Sneath, Microsoft's senior director of Microsoft Learning, did address those concerns in his own board post. In short, it would seem that the Masters certification program has not been as successful as Microsoft would have liked. Sneath said:

The truth is, for as successful as the program is for those who are in it, it reaches only a tiny proportion of the overall community. Only a few hundred people have attained the certification in the last few years, far fewer than we would have hoped.

However, Sneath indicated that Microsoft is still interested in creating a new high level certification program for IT pros and that the company may just be "taking a pause" before launching a new and improved exam program.

Source: Neil Johnson via ZDNet.com | Image via Microsoft

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