Part - II : Formatting Text and Paragraph . Text formatting A text without any special formatting gives a monotonous appearance. OpenOffice Writer offers a number of choices for formatting such as Bold, Italics and defining the font type, and font size. Bold, Italic, underlined are the most common types of text formatting.
Almost all the formatting options are available under the Format menu. . . Changing font style, size and colour A font is a set of characters in a particular style.
Changing the default appearance of the text like changing the font type , size, color, style etc., are called as Text formatting . To make the text attractive and more appealing, various formatting like bold, italic and underline can be done by using the following text formatting shortcuts shown in Table . Table . Text formatting shortcuts OPERATION ACTION ICON SHORTCUT KEY BOLD Makes the text bold Ctrl + B ITALICS Italicizes the text Ctrl +I UNDERLINE Underlines the text Ctrl +U The default font type is Times New Roman and the type of font can be changed by clicking on the Font Type icon The default size of font is points which can be changed by clicking on the Font Size icon The default font color is black and the font color can be changed by clicking on the Font colour icon which shows the color palette from which the required color can be selected.
Besides the regular formatting Bold, Italics and underline, many other formatting can be done by using the dialog box shown in Figure . . The other formatting options can be selected by using Format → Character. The Character dialog box is displayed as shown in the Figure .
using which all the formatting can be done at a single stretch with a preview options. Font Tab Preview window Figure . – Character dialog box . .
Changing Case Normally any text can be typed in upper or lower case. The text can be changed to different cases like: • Uppercase (Capital letters) • toggle case (reverse case), • sentence case (first letter of