## Text Format dialog box

This dialog box opens when you double-click a text object (to put it in edit mode), right-click, and choose the Change Font, Paragraph Formatting, or Set Tabs command from the shortcut menu that appears.

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.

### Font tab (Text Format)

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.

##### Font

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.

##### Style

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.

- Regular
  the standard, unmodified style
- Bold
  changes the font to boldface
- Italic
  changes the font to italic
- Bold Italic
  changes the font to Bold Italic.

##### Size

This list includes common point sizes for the selected font. The list appears with the point size that is currently in use selected.

##### Color

Select the desired color from this list if you want to add color to the font.

##### Strikeout

When you select this check box, the program prints the strikeout character across the font.

##### Underline

When you select this check box, the program underlines characters typed in the selected font.

##### Character spacing exactly

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-point font with a character spacing of 14 points, each character will remain as a 14-point font size, occupying a space that is 14 points wide.

### Paragraph Formatting tab (Text Format)

Use the Paragraph Formatting tab of the Format Editor to set formatting options for paragraphs in a text object.

##### First Line

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.

##### Left

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.

##### Right

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.

##### Line spacing

Enter the spacing you want for lines as a multiple of the font size you are using, or as an exact number of points.

##### Of

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).

##### Text interpretation

Use this list to select the type of pre-formatted data (string or memo fields only) or text you are inserting in a field. Seagate Crystal Reports extracts information about the font, size, style, color, and paragraph and displays the data or text with the specified attributes.

Your choices are:

- "none" to interpret the string or memo field or imported text as if it contains plain text
- "RTF Text" to interpret the string or memo field or imported text as if it contains Rich Text Format data
- "HTML Text" to interpret the string or memo field or imported text as if it contains HTML data.

### Tabs tab (Text Format)

Use the Tabs tab to set, delete, modify and edit tabs in a text object.

##### Tab Stop Position box

Enter the desired tab stop position in this box. Tab stops are measured in inches.

##### Alignment options

Choose from four alignment option for the selected tab stop: left, right, center, and decimal.

##### Set button

Once you have entered a tab stop position into the Tab Stop Position box, click this button to set it.

##### Delete button

When you click this button, the selected tab stop is deleted.

##### Delete All button

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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