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Font Features

Select and apply font typographical features to characters.

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).

Then press Features...

Office supports OpenType font format. The two main benefits of the OpenType format are its cross-platform compatibility, and its ability to support widely expanded character sets and layout features, which provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographic control.

The features displayed in the Font Features dialogue box depends on the selected font.

Font features box

The font features box contains the configurable features available for the font.

Font feature visualisation window

The feature visualisation window displays a default text where the selected features can be inspected.