Interesting word when you look into it.
My first google of word and outlining text finds how to get the outline
around the letters in the font (no font fill, LO character style
outline), then how to control lists (outlining) but I suspect the
original poster is interested in what I would call highlighting
(character background colour, may be he wants a box around the words he
selects).
I found a button in LO that applies a character background colour, but
that was all. I ended up typing some text, highlighting it, right click
character, added an over line and 20% gray background. I then opened
styles (F11), , clicked the character styles, new style from selection
and called it highlighting. Now whenever I want to highlight some text I
just select it and double click the highlighting style. Prints well too.
I can even use the styles painting thing (fill format mode) and just
work through my document highlighting as I go.
So thanks, I have learned something new and useful in LO by looking into
this thread (just like I learned the other day that you can select a
block of numbers in calc first, then click the sigma to create a sum
rather than fiddling with the box that comes up when you click sigma first)
steve
On 2013-03-23 12:20, anne-ology wrote:
Another good thought.
And if you wish to make a box,
then make an image where you can insert whatever inside should
work;
this image can be placed in any document as any other image.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]>wrote:
I'm sure it's not quite what you want, but in the Character/Font Effects
dialog, you can insert an overline and an underline on the highlighted
text. You just don't get the right and left side of the box.
Virgil
From: Dave Liesse
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 2:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Text Outlining
One of the writers in the Windows Secrets newsletter recently compared
OO and LO to MS Office, and I have to agree with him when he implied the
LO web site is somewhat disorganized and confusing. Thus, this posting
that is probably an enhancement request, but I can't find anywhere else
to do such a thing.
I've used OO and LO for several years, and have found very little that I
did in Office that I can't do now. One thing, though, is beyond the
nuisance level but short of being a game stopper. I need the ability to
outline text within a paragraph. I know a block of text can be
highlighted with a different background or foreground color, but I need
something that can actually be useful in a printed document. Sometimes
underlining is insufficient, because it's not distinguishable from other
underlined text.
As an example of what I want, just envision a box around "what I want"
in this sentence. Obviously, outlining a paragraph doesn't do the trick.
Anyway, that's what I'd like to see sometime -- or, if I'm missing how
to do it now, somebody please let me know!
Dave
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