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# 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.

Font Name

## Font Size

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

Font Size

Font Size

## 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.

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.

If the cursor is not inside a word, and no text is selected, then the font style is applied to the text that you type.

Italic

## Underline

Underlines or removes underlining from the selected text.

Underline

### Font Colour

Sets the current cell or cells selection font colour.

Sets the colour for the selected text. Click to apply the current font colour to the selected characters or to the word where the cursor is placed.

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

Font Colour

## Line Spacing: 1

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

Line spacing: 1

## Line Spacing: 1.5

Sets the line spacing to 1.5 lines.

Line spacing: 1.5

## Line Spacing: 2

Sets the line spacing to two lines.

Line spacing: 2

## Align Left

Aligns the paragraph to the beginning of the line in the reading direction. For top-to-bottom text, this means alignment to the top.

Align Start

## Centred

Centres the contents of the paragraph on the page.

Align Centre HorizontallyCentred

## Align Right

Aligns the paragraph to the end of the line in the reading direction. For top-to-bottom text, this means alignment to the bottom.

Align End

## Justify

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

Justified

## Superscript

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

Superscript

## Subscript

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

Subscript

## Character

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

Character

## Paragraph

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

Paragraph

### Asian Language Support

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

## Text running from left to right

Specifies the horizontal direction of the text.

Text direction from left to right

## Text running from top to bottom

Specifies the vertical direction of the text.

Text direction from top to bottom

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