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The editor automatically sets the text color to BYLAYER. When black characters
are inserted and the background color is black, the editor automatically changes
to white or the current color.
Paragraph Alignment Sets alignment for the multiline text object. You can
choose to align your text to the left, center, or right. You can justify your text,
or align the first and last characters of your text with the margins of your
mtext box, or center each line of text within the margins of your mtext box.
Spaces entered at the end of a line are included as part of the text and affect
the justification of the line. (Not available for single-line text.)
Paragraph Displays options for paragraph formatting. See the
Paragraph dialog
box
on page 681. (Not available for single-line text.)
Bullets and Lists Displays the options for numbering lists. (Not available for
single-line text.)
Displays options for creating lists. (Not available for table cells.) The list is
indented to align with the first selected paragraph.
■ Off: When selected, removes letters, numbers, and bullets from selected
text that has list formatting applied. Indentation is not changed.
■ Lettered: Applies list formatting that uses letters with periods for the items
in the list. If the list has more items than the alphabet has letters, the
sequence continues by using double letters.
■ Numbered: Applies list formatting that uses numbers with periods for the
items in the list.
■ Bulleted: Applies list formatting that uses bullets for the items in the list.
■ Restart: Starts a new letter or number sequence in list formatting. If the
selected items are in the middle of a list, unselected items below them also
become part of the new list.
■ Continue: Adds the selected paragraphs to the last list above and continues
the sequence. If list items rather than paragraphs are selected, unselected
items below the selected items continue the sequence.
■ Allow Auto-list: Applies list formatting as you type. The following characters
can be used as punctuation after letters and numbers and cannot be used
as bullets: period (.), comma (,), close parenthesis ()), close angle bracket
(>), close square bracket (]), and close curly bracket (}).
■ Use Tab Delimiter Only: Limits the Allow Auto-list and Allow Bullets and
Lists options. List formatting is applied to text only when the space after
the letter, number, or bullet character was created by Tab, not Space.
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