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Tip
To quickly change a paragraph into a Heading, place the cursor inside of it, or select the paragraph
(see: "Selecting an element" on page550). Then select the appropriate element, either on the
Format menu, or from the 'Element type' dropdown on the toolbar.
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682. 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: Specify the color of the text: select a named color (defined in the Colors
Editor) from the drop-down, or click the colored square to open the Color Picker
dialog ("Color Picker" on page786). Alternatively you could type a name or value in
the Color field directly. It must be a predefined CSS color name (CSS color names),
a hexadecimal color code (HTML Hex Color), an RGB color value, for example rgb
(216,255,170) or a CMYK color value, for example cmyk(15%, 0%, 33%, 0%).
This setting is equivalent to the color property in CSS.
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Background color: Specify the background color of the text: select a named color
(defined in the Colors Editor) from the drop-down, or click the colored square to
open the Color Picker dialog ("Color Picker" on page786). Alternatively you could
type a name or value in the Color field directly. It must be a predefined CSS color
name (CSS color names), a hexadecimal color code (HTML Hex Color), an RGB
color value, for example rgb(216,255,170) or a CMYK color value, for example cmyk
(15%, 0%, 33%, 0%).
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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