Text Formatting Bar

The Text Formatting Bar that is displayed when the cursor is in a text object, such as a text box or a drawing object, contains formatting and alignment commands.

Font Name

Allows you to select a font name from the list or enter a font name directly.

You can enter several fonts, separated by semicolons. LibreOffice uses each named font in succession if the previous fonts are not available.

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Font Name

Font Size

Allows you to choose between different font sizes from the list, or to enter a size manually.

Bold

Makes the selected text bold. If the cursor is in a word, the entire word is made bold. If the selection or word is already bold, the formatting is removed.

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Bold

Italic

Makes the selected text italic. If the cursor is in a word, the entire word is made italic. If the selection or word is already italic, the formatting is removed.

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Italic

Underline

Underlines or removes underlining from the selected text.

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Underline

Font Colour

Click to apply the current font color to the selected characters. You can also click here, and then drag a selection to change the text color. Click the arrow next to the icon to open the Font color toolbar.

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Font Colour

Line Spacing: 1

Applies single line spacing to the current paragraph. This is the default setting.

Icon Line spacing: 1

Line spacing: 1

Line Spacing: 1.5

Sets the line spacing to 1.5 lines.

Icon Line spacing: 1.5

Line spacing: 1.5

Line Spacing: 2

Sets the line spacing to two lines.

Icon Line spacing: 2

Line spacing: 2

Align Left

Aligns the paragraph to the left page margin.

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Align Left

Centered

Centers the contents of the paragraph on the page.

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Align Right

Aligns the paragraph to the right page margin.

Icon Align Right

Align Right

Justify

Aligns the paragraph to the left and to the right page margins.

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Justified

Superscript

Reduces the font size of the selected text and raises the text above the baseline.

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Superscript

Subscript

Reduces the font size of the selected text and lowers the text below the baseline.

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Subscript

Character

Changes the font and the font formatting for the selected characters.

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Character

Paragraph

Modifies the format of the current paragraph, such as indents and alignment.

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Paragraph

Asian Language Support

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

Text running from left to right

Specifies the horizontal direction of the text.

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Text direction from left to right

Text running from top to bottom

Specifies the vertical direction of the text.

Icon Text direction from top to bottom

Text direction from top to bottom

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