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Background color: this is the background color of the text. Select a named font
color as defined in the Edit Colors dialog (see "Colors" on page185) or click the
colored square to create a new color or to enter a color value manually. a valid
HTML color name or hexadecimal color code. 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:
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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
style tag containing the selected setting(s). Click the Advanced button to add CSS
properties and values to the inline style tag of the Span directly. For more information
about CSS, see "Styling and formatting" on page165.
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