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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

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

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 left page margin.

Align Left

## Centred

Centres the contents of the paragraph on the page.

Align Centre Horizontally Centred

## Align Right

Aligns the paragraph to the right page margin.

Align Right

## 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 - Preferences Tools - 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