Font Effects
Specify the font effects that you want to use.
      
        
        
Choose Format - Character - Font Effects tab.
Choose  - open context menu of an entry and choose  tab.
Menu Format - Page Style - Header/Footer - Edit button (spreadsheets).
 
        
From the tabbed interface:
 
        Choose  then click the  dropdown on the right-hand side of the tab and choose .
        
        Choose 
       
 
 
      
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.
    To change the colour of a text selection, select the text that you want to change, and click the Font Colour icon. To apply a different colour, click the arrow next to the Font Colour icon, and then select the colour that you want to use.
  
The text colour is ignored when printing, if the Print text in black check box is selected in LibreOffice Writer - Print in the Options dialogue box.
 
The text colour is ignored on screen, if the Use automatic font colour for screen display check box is marked in LibreOffice - PreferencesTools - Options - LibreOffice - Accessibility.
 
Transparency
Sets the transparency of the character text. The value 100% means entirely transparent, while 0% means not transparent at all.
  
    
Transparency cannot be set for Paragraph Style and Character Style.
 
  
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.
      
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.
      
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.
 
      Icon on the Formatting Bar: 
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.
  
   
   
      Case
      The following capitalisation effects are available:
      
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           Without - No effect is applied. 
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             UPPERCASE - Changes the selected lower-case characters to upper-case characters. 
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           lowercase - Changes the selected upper-case characters to lower-case characters. 
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           Capitalise Every Word - Changes the first character of each selected word to an upper-case character. 
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            Small capitals - Changes the selected lower-case characters to upper-case characters, and then reduces their size. 
Hidden
      Hides the selected characters. To display the hidden text, ensure that  is selected in the View menu. You can also choose  - LibreOffice Writer - Formatting Aids and select Hidden characters.
  
  
      Case
      The following capitalisation effects are available:
      
         - 
           Without - No effect is applied. 
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             UPPERCASE - Changes the selected lower-case characters to upper-case characters. 
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           lowercase - Changes the selected upper-case characters to lower-case characters. 
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           Capitalise Every Word - Changes the first character of each selected word to an upper-case character. 
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            Small capitals - Changes the selected lower-case characters to upper-case characters, and then reduces their size. 
 
  
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 LibreOffice - PreferencesTools - Options - 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.
 
Apply
  Applies the modified or selected values without closing the dialogue box.
 
This option appears only for Paragraph Style and Character Style.