"format the text" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to changing the appearance of text in a digital document, such as changing the font, size, and color. For example, "I formatted the text so it was easier to read."
When using such HTML-editors, the author simply selects (highlights) text and then uses 'menu' functions to format the text in various ways (such as to italicize, to put the text in a list environment, to create a link and use the text as the label on that link, etc).
I carefully wrote the post, taking time to properly format the text from the excerpts (which is a real pain), linking to both the Kindle and hardcover pre-sale versions of the book in the first paragraph, and linking to Fortune twice in the second paragraph.
You can format the text, insert images, and so on.
From here you can replace the text entirely, add text before or after the original file names or format the text in a number of different ways.
Just like the iPhone client, it'll sync your reading lists, optimize and format the text for the mobile screen, and automatically archive everything you've read.
After simply dragging and dropping content, users can re-size images or text boxes, format the text, add links, and mess with alignment.
I composed a post on a test blog and formatted the text using all of the 10 options given.
The Sony Reader is intended for moving through a book, offering buttons that let you flip pages with one hand and software that formats the text to fit the screen.
Google is using an extraction technology called Optical Character Recognition (OCR), that captures and formats the text from the page so that it can be easily viewed on a mobile browser.
QW wrote the manuscript and formatted the text.
LJ designed the figures, and edited and formatted the text.
