This section will cover the changes you can make to individual or blocks of characters including:
There are several keyboard shortcuts which you can use to make common changes to character formatting. After selecting the text, you can use these key combinations to toggle each attribute.
The Basic Formatting Tool bar also has buttons which you can use to toggle these same attributes.
The following table details each attribute, the tool bar buttons and the keyboard shortcuts.
Note
You cannot change the Character Set using the keyboard or the tool-bar, you must use the dialog box.
If you have many changes to make, you can also use a dialog box to set these same attributes.
You can open the Character Formatting Dialog box in one of two ways:
Either method will open a dialog box
Using this dialog box, you can select the font, size, character set, italics and boldface options.
The preview box along the bottom, will show you how your current settings will appear.
Clicking OK will commit your changes to the document.
Clicking Cancel will abort all changes made.
Note
The default sentence for the preview box is ‘The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog’.
You can change this sentence by clicking once within the sentence. You can then change the sample sentence to anything you want.
This can be especially useful if you need to view numbers, special characters, or non-arabic characters
The sample sentence will revert to the default the next time you open this dialog.
The ‘Change Font Color’ command can be invoked 3 ways:
You can now choose a color for the selected text using the Color Selection Dialog Box.
