CharactersFont
Specify the formatting and the font that you want to apply.
To access this command...
Choose Format - Character - Font tab.
Choose View - Styles - open context menu of an entry and choose Modify/New - Font tab.
Open context menu of a row header in a database table - choose Table Format - Font tab.
Choose Format - Title - Character tab (Chart documents).
Choose Format - Legend - Character tab (Chart documents).
Choose Format - Axis - Character tab (Chart documents).
Choose Format - Cells - Font tab (spreadsheets).
Menu Format - Page - Header/Footer - Edit button (spreadsheets).
The changes are applied to the current selection, to the entire word that contains the cursor, or to the new text that you type.
Depending on your language settings, you can change the formatting for the following font types:
- Western text font - Latin character sets.
- Asian text font - Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character sets
- Complex text layout font - right-to-left text direction
To enable support for complex text layout and Asian character sets, choose Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages, and then select the Enabled box in the corresponding area.
Font
Enter the name of an installed font that you want to use, or select a font from the list.
You can see the name of the fonts formatted in their respective font if you mark the Show preview of fonts field in Office - View in the Options dialogue box.
Icon on the Formatting Bar:
Font Name
Typeface
Select the formatting that you want to apply.
Icon on the Formatting Bar:
Bold
Italic
Size
Enter or select the font size that you want to apply. For scalable fonts, you can also enter decimal values.
If you are creating a style that is based on another style, you can enter a percentage value or a point value (for example, -2pt or +5pt).
Icon on the Formatting Bar:
Font Size
Font Size
Language
Sets the language that the spell checker uses for the selected text or the text that you type. Available language modules have a check mark in front of them.
If the language list consists of an editable combo box, you can enter a valid BCP 47 language tag if the language you want to assign is not available from the selectable list.
For language tag details please see the For users section on the langtag.net web site.
You can also change the locale setting for cells (choose Format - Cells - Numbers).
The spell check for the selected language only functions when you have installed the corresponding language module. A language entry has a tick mark in front of it if spell checking is activated for this language.
Font Features
Select and apply font typographical features to characters.
Preview Field
Displays a preview of the current selection.
Reset
Resets changes made to the current tab to those applicable when this dialogue box was opened.
OK
Saves all changes and closes dialogue box.
Cancel
Clicking Cancel closes a dialogue box without saving any changes made.
The following buttons appear only for Paragraph Style and Character Style.
Apply
Applies modifications on all tabs without closing dialogue box. Cannot be reverted with Reset.
Reset to Parent
Values for the current tab are set to those found in the corresponding tab of the style specified in “Inherit from” in Organiser. In all cases, also when “Inherit from” is “- None -”, current tab values specified in “Contains” are removed.