This dialog box opens when you double
Use the Text Format dialog box to change font types/styles, format paragraphs, and set tabs for a text object.
The Text Format dialog box has three tabs: Font, Paragraph Formatting, and Tabs.
Use the Font tab of the Format Editor to change the fonts, the font size, and the font style for text and data fields on your reports.
This list contains all the fonts that you have installed for your system. The list appears with the font that is currently in use selected.
This list contains four additional attributes that you can assign to the selected font. The list appears with the style that is currently in use selected.
This list includes common point sizes for the selected font. The list appears with the point size that is currently in use selected.
Select the desired color from this list if you want to add color to the font.
When you select this check box, the program prints the strikeout character across the font.
When you select this check box, the program underlines characters typed in the selected font.
Use this option to specify the value that each character in your selected font occupies. The value is defined as the distance in number of points measured from the start of one character to the start of the next. When you change the character spacing, you change only the spacing between adjacent characters, not the font size of the characters.
For example, if you specify a 14
Use the Paragraph Formatting tab of the Format Editor to set formatting options for paragraphs in a text object.
Enter the distance in inches (or the default measurement for your report) that you want the first line of the paragraph to be indented from the left margin of the page.
Enter the distance in inches (or the default measurement for your report) that you want the paragraph to be indented from the left margin of the page.
Enter the distance in inches (or the default measurement for your report) that you want the paragraph to be indented from the right margin of the page.
Enter the spacing you want for lines as a multiple of the font size you are using, or as an exact number of points.
Use this box to enter the multiple you want to use (if you selected Multiple for Line Spacing), or the number of points (if you selected Exact for Line Spacing).
Use this list to select the type of pre
Use the Tabs tab to set, delete, modify and edit tabs in a text object.
Enter the desired tab stop position in this box. Tab stops are measured in inches.
Choose from four alignment option for the selected tab stop: left, right, center, and decimal.
Once you have entered a tab stop position into the Tab Stop Position box, click this button to set it.
When you click this button, the selected tab stop is deleted.
When you click this button all the defined tab stops are deleted.
Note: The unit of measurement used in the dialog box (inches or centimeters) is based on the Regional setting in the Windows Control Panel (for example, English(United States) gives inches, English(United Kingdom) gives centimeters).
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