Internet & Online

What Is The Biggest Font In Word?

by Dave

What is the largest Word font?

It’s a bizarre question I know, because who really wants to know this and why?!

But the answer is…

The biggest font size you can get in a word document is 1638 points.

You can test this out. Try typing in 1900…

Just to get an idea of what 1638 looks like in a word doc I reduced the view to 25% to get the whole page on screen and typed in a lower case i in an Arial font.

As you can see, you just about get the dot on the top of the i along with a tiny part of the main body of the letter.

So there you go. That’s pretty big and from what I see, pretty useless, but it’s good to know eh?

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by Dave

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by Dave

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by Dave

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by Dave

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by Dave
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