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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931). 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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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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Whitespace: Specify how the text wraps. See CSS White-Space for details. This is
equivalent to the white-space property in CSS.
l The style of the text. Check any option to apply the selected style to text within the
element. This list shows the CSS property and value for each of the options:
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Bold: Sets the font-weight to 700.
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Italic: Sets the font-style to italic.
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Underline: Sets the text-decoration to underline.
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Strikethrough: Sets the text-decoration to line-through.
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Subscript: Sets the vertical-align to super.
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Superscript: Sets the vertical-align to sub.
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Capitalize: Sets the text-transform to capitalize.
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Uppercase: Sets thetext-transform to uppercase.
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Lowercase: Sets thetext-transform to lowercase.
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Small-caps: Sets the font-variant to small-caps.
Note
All settings in the Text Formatting dialog are in fact CSS style rules. When you change
one or more settings, the selected text gets wrapped in a Span element that has an inline
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