Font Effects /text/shared/01/05020200.xhp

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Font Effects

Specify the font effects that you want to use.

Font Color

Sets the color for the selected text. If you select Automatic, the text color is set to black for light backgrounds and to white for dark backgrounds. To change the color of a text selection, select the text that you want to change, and click the Font Color icon. To apply a different color, click the arrow next to the Font Color icon, and then select the color that you want to use. If you click the Font Color icon before you select text, the paint can cursor appears. To change the color of text, select the text with the paint can cursor. To change the color of a single word, double-click in a word. To apply a different color, click the arrow next to the Font Color icon, and then select the color that you want to use. To undo the last change, right-click. To exit the paint can mode, click once, or press the Esc key.

The text color is ignored when printing, if the Print text in black check box is selected in %PRODUCTNAME Writer - Print in the Options dialog box. The text color is ignored on screen, if the Use automatic font color for screen display check box is selected in %PRODUCTNAME - Preferences Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME - Accessibility. Click to apply the current font color to the selected characters. You can also click here, and then drag a selection to change the text color. Click the arrow next to the icon to open the Font color toolbar.

Transparency

Sets the transparency of the character text. The value 100% means entirely transparent, while 0% means not transparent at all. Transparency cannot be set for Paragraph Style and Character Style.

Text Decoration

Overlines or removes overlining from the selected text. If the cursor is not in a word, the new text that you enter is overlined.

Overlining

Select the overlining style that you want to apply. To apply the overlining to words only, select the Individual Words box.

Overline color

Select the color for the overlining.

Strikethrough

Select a strikethrough style for the selected text. If you save your document in Microsoft Word format, all of the strikethrough styles are converted to the single line style.

Underlining

Select the underlining style that you want to apply. To apply the underlining to words only, select the Individual Words box. If you apply underlining to a superscript text, the underlining is raised to the level of the superscript. If the superscript is contained in a word with normal text, the underlining is not raised.

Underline color

Select the color for the underlining.

Individual words

Applies the selected effect only to words and ignores spaces.

Effects

Select the font effects that you want to apply. Calc has no case control

Case

The following capitalization effects are available: Without - No effect is applied. UPPERCASE - Changes the selected lowercase characters to uppercase characters. lowercase - Changes the selected uppercase characters to lower characters. Capitalize Every Word - Changes the first character of each selected word to an uppercase character. Small capitals - Changes the selected lowercase characters to uppercase characters, and then reduces their size.

Hidden

Hides the selected characters. To display the hidden text, ensure that Formatting Marks is selected in the View menu. You can also choose %PRODUCTNAME - Preferences Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME Writer - Formatting Aids and select Hidden characters.

copies the definitions from previous section

Relief

Select a relief effect to apply to the selected text. The embossed relief makes the characters appear as if they are raised above the page. The engraved relief makes the characters appear as if they are pressed into the page.

Outline

Displays the outline of the selected characters. This effect does not work with every font.

Shadow

Adds a shadow that casts below and to the right of the selected characters.

Emphasis mark

Select a character to display over or below the entire length of the selected text.

Position

Specify where to display the emphasis marks.

Only Writer has Apply button