To use a preferred body font in future Google Docs, update the Normal text style and save your default styles. Simply changing the font of one paragraph does not establish the default for newly created documents.
The Google Docs font menu can include additional fonts from its supported collection. Adding one to the menu makes it easier to select; it is different from uploading an arbitrary font file from your computer.
An exact font size is a document formatting choice. Google Docs zoom only changes your view. If a submission requires 12-point text, enlarging the browser view does not satisfy that requirement.
Google Docs can change selected text to lowercase, uppercase, title case, or small caps. This is useful for correcting a pasted heading without retyping it, but capitalization still needs an editorial check afterward.
Strikethrough keeps text visible while marking it with a line. In Google Docs it can suit an informal checklist or an example of superseded wording, but it does not create the review history of a suggested deletion.
Superscript raises selected characters, while subscript lowers them. Google Docs can apply these treatments to ordinary text, which is useful for a short exponent or a chemical label that does not need a full equation object.
A HEX value can give Google Docs text a precise brand color. Use the supplied value instead of choosing a visually similar palette swatch, then check that the result remains readable against its background.
Removing a text highlight in Google Docs should leave the letters themselves unchanged. Use Highlight color for the background behind selected text, rather than changing Text color and accidentally recoloring the words.
Pasting without formatting brings text into Google Docs without carrying over much of the source’s visual styling. It is useful when a copied web passage introduces inconsistent fonts, colors, or spacing into a report.
Letter spacing changes the space between characters in Google Docs. Use its formatting control when a heading needs a deliberate tracking adjustment; inserting spaces between every letter makes the text harder to search, edit, and maintain.