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Formatting text and paragraphs locally
An intuitive way of formatting text locally is by using the toolbar buttons: select some text, or an
element that contains text (see: "Selecting an element" on page526) and click one of the
toolbar buttons to make it bold, center it, create a numbered or bulleted list, etc.
To quickly change a paragraph into a Heading, Address or Pre element, select the paragraph
(see: "Selecting an element" on page526) and on the Format menu, select the appropriate
element.
More local formatting options are available in the Formatting dialogs; see below.
Formatting text
To open the Text Formatting dialog, select some text and then select Format > Text. In the Text
Formatting dialog you can set:
l The font, font size, color and background color:
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Font: Select the font used to display text. See also: "Fonts" on page651. This is
equivalent to setting the font-family property in CSS.
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Font size. Enter the size in a measure, named size or percentage. This is
equivalent to setting the font-size property in CSS.
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Color: This the color of the text. Select a named font color as defined in the Edit
Colors dialog (see "Colors" on page647) or click the colored square to create a
new color or to enter a color manually. The color value must be a valid HTML color
name or hexadecimal color code. This setting is equivalent to the color property in
CSS.
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Background color: This is the background color of the text. Select a named font
color as defined in the Edit Colors dialog (see "Colors" on page647) or click the
colored square to create a new color or to manually enter a color value (a valid
HTML color name or hexadecimal color code). This setting is equivalent to the
background-color property in CSS.
l The spacing between letters and words and the way the text is wrapped:
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Letter Spacing: The space between characters in a text in measure or percentage.
This is equivalent to the letter-spacing property in CSS.
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Word Spacing: Set the space between each word in a text in measure or
percentage. This is equivalent to the word-spacing property in CSS.
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