Font Effects

Specify the font effects that you want to use.

To access this command...

Choose Format - Character - Font Effects tab.

Choose View - Styles - open context menu of an entry and choose New/Edit Style - Font Effects tab.


Font Effects Page Dialogue Box Image

The changes are applied to the current selection, to the entire word that contains the cursor, or to the new text that you type.

Font Colour

Sets the colour for the selected text. If you select Automatic, the text colour is set to black for light backgrounds and to white for dark backgrounds.

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The text colour is ignored on screen, if the Use automatic font colour for screen display check box is marked in - LibreOffice - Accessibility.


Transparency

Sets the transparency of the character text. The value 100% means entirely transparent, while 0% means not transparent at all.

Text Decoration

Overlining

Select the overlining style that you want to apply. To apply the overlining to words only, select the Individual Words box.

Overline colour

Select the colour for the overlining.

Strikethrough

Select a strikethrough style for the selected text.

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If you save your document in Microsoft Word format, all of the strikethrough styles are converted to the single line style.


Underlining

Select the underlining style that you want to apply. To apply the underlining to words only, select the Individual Words box.

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If you apply underlining to a superscript text, the underlining is raised to the level of the superscript. If the superscript is contained in a word with normal text, the underlining is not raised.


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Underline

Underline colour

Select the colour for the underlining.

Individual words

Applies the selected effect only to words and ignores spaces.

Effects

Select the font effects that you want to apply.

Relief

Select a relief effect to apply to the selected text. The embossed relief makes the characters appear as if they are raised above the page. The engraved relief makes the characters appear as if they are pressed into the page.

Outline

Displays the outline of the selected characters. This effect does not work with every font.

Shadow

Adds a shadow that casts below and to the right of the selected characters.

Asian Language Support

These commands can only be accessed after you enable support for Asian languages in - Languages and Locales - General.

Emphasis mark

Select a character to display over or below the entire length of the selected text.

Position

Specify where to display the emphasis marks.

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.

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