Formatting– This includes the spacing between letters, the spacing between words, the placement of words on a line, and the margins a writer leaves empty on a page.Line form– This includes how smooth and dark the lines are, which indicates how much pressure the writer applies while writing and the speed of the writing.So an analyst will try to find examples of each letter in each placement. A person may form a letter differently depending on where the letter falls in a word – beginning, middle, or end. Letter form– This includes curves, slants, the proportional size of letters (relationship between the size of short and tall letters and between the height and width of a single letter), the slope of writing, and the use and appearance of connecting lines (links) between letters.A QDE is looking at three things: letter form, line form, and formatting. Instead of beginning to look for similarities in the handwriting, a QDE begins to search for differences since it’s the differences that determine if the document is a forgery. Handwriting analysis is looking for small differences between the writing of a sample where the writer is known and a writing sample where the writer is unknown. Thus, handwriting is as unique as a fingerprint. The similarity in handwriting would be due to the style characteristics that we were taught when we were learning handwriting in school out of a book. Handwriting analysts say that people could have a few writing characteristics that are the same but the likelihood of having any more than that is impossible. This means that handwriting is unique for each person. Handwriting is an individual characteristic. QDEs look for forgeries and alterations and make comparisons if there is an original sample of handwriting available. These documents are examined by expert questioned documents examiners or QDEs. Handwriting analysis falls into the questioned documents section of forensic science.