Questions tagged [text-formatting]
The process of laying out text in a document for ease of reading. Including font, size, spacing, etc.
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How to convert a fixed-character-width-columns table into a word processor app table with MS Word or LO Writer?
NB this is not about "fixed columns" in the context of table options in MS Word.
I have this table (from Linux fdisk command, in fact fdisk -x):
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How to replace characters between wildcards in Microsoft Word?
The issue that I am running into is that while the "Find" bar can 'read' wildcards, the "Replace" bar seemingly cannot, even when I click "Use Wildcards" while in the &...
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How can I turn the text in a PNG file back into text layer?
I created a PNG file with only four characters as one line in it:
How I created it step by step:
file-new-width:400 height:400
tool-text-type hllo
file-export as -- raw.png.
Now I want to add an e ...
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How to highlight text in emails stored in Thunderbird?
I need to highlight (i.e. change the background color of) text portions in my emails stored in Thunderbird. Example:
Is there any other solution than to manually edit the .eml source files in an ...
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Adding a column on a page in Microsoft Word creates an unusable blank line
I have a setup as shown below, which is the use of two columns on the page, not in a table (I redacted text). I have an issue where the second column starts a line below the first. Despite doing ...
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How can I format a value as a number in a Excel formula that includes text?
I have two tables of information: The top table is a product price index. The bottom table is criteria for how the cost for a product can be split into monthly payments.
My goal is to develop a ...
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Is there any whitespace character that MS Office apps, (especially Word or Outlook), would also fully treat as part of the preceding word?
I'm wondering if there's any whitespace character that MS Office apps, (especially Word or Outlook), would also fully treat as part of the preceding word.
So for example, let's say I want to highlight ...
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How to prevent blue squiggly marks below every dash in LibreOffice Writer? (will not be converting to en dash or em dash)
In LibreOffice (or OpenOffice), how does one prevent Writer from showing a blue squiggly mark below every dash because the application wants the user to convert it to an en dash or em dash?
I have ...
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Adding a period after footnote numbers in Microsoft Word on macOS
I'm using Microsoft Word v16.9.3 on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1. I need to use Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition for a paper, and this calls for the footnotes being in 12 point font and the footnote ...
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Using Get-ChildItem to output to a text file and can't get the format of the text file correct
Using PowerShell, I'm attempting to gather all the file paths for all the files in all the subfolders using Get-ChildItem:
Get-ChildItem -Path "W:\ZZ Top" -Recurse -Directory | Select-Object ...
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Cursor jumps to the start or end of line when using the arrow in Windows 11
On my windows pc, on any line when I use the keyboard arrow left or arrow right keys to navigate any text, the cursor goes either to the start or the end of the line. No in between. If tried to look ...
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Escape version string that Telegram interprets as URL
Potion Craft 2.0 was released today and I wrote to two of my acquantances
Hey, version 2.0.1.1 has been released!
knowing that they had long uninstalled the game, having grown tired of waiting for ...
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How to make a tie bar look correct in PowerPoint?
In Microsoft Word, the digraph t͡s (using the Unicode character Combining Double Inverted Breve in the Combining Diacritical Marks block) is displayed correctly:
In PowerPoint, the same text is ...
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Keeping underlined term in table of contents
In a Microsoft Word document, one of the headings has a specific word that must be underlined (and a different one must be italicized) every time it is present, and is formatted that way in the header ...
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Word TOC format. Need Bold section number and title and not bold leading and page number
In MS Word, the TOC modify option for TOC 1,2,3...appears to join the formatting for these features together: Chapter number, chapter/section heading, leading (the dots between the heading and the ...
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