Selecting fonts in a format area

You can specify how you want text to appear by selecting options in the Font dialog box.

Procedure

  1. To select font properties, do one of the following:
    • select the text to which you want to apply text formatting
    • place your cursor in the paragraph in which you would like to apply formatting
  2. In the Font selection area, you can select the following properties:
    OptionDescription
    FontThe font face. You only see this dropdown if your application administrator has explicitly enabled this feature; it is disabled by default
    SizeThe size of the font
    ColorThe color of the font
    BackgroundThe color of the background
    StyleItalic text, bold text and underlined text
    EffectsStrikethrough text, superscript text and subscript text. The superscript and subscript effects are mutually exclusive: that is, you may only select one of the two.