Formatting text objects

The Enter Text screen provides these options for formatting your text object:

Font

Lets you choose the style of the characters. See To

 

select a font below.

 

 

Type size

Lets you change the size of the characters. See To

buttons

change the type size on page 7-7.

 

 

Special

Lets you insert special characters, like accented

 

characters, foreign currency symbols, mathematical

 

symbols, subscripts and superscripts, and more. See

 

Adding special characters to text on page 7-8.

 

 

OK

Saves your settings and displays the label in the

 

Editor window.

 

 

Cancel

Returns you to the Editor window with a text object

 

containing no text displayed.

 

 

To select a font

You can choose from among several font styles, depending on which fonts are provided with your system. The font is the style and shape of the characters.

You can also use text formatting options to change the style of the fonts to bold, italic, and underline, or any combination of the three. You can change the color of your text as well, depending again on how your system is equipped and the supplies you have installed.

Note: When you apply the text formatting options, the system places invisible markers to indicate where to apply format changes. Normally you will not be aware of these markers, but if you inadvertently place the cursor before a marker, the Delete key will not function.

1.With the text you want to change displayed on the Enter Text screen, select the part of the text (or all of it) that you want to format.

2.Press Font on the Enter Text screen, shown in Figure 7-3 on page 7-5.

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Adding Objects

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Brady 76800 manual Formatting text objects, To select a font