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# Formatting Bar

The Formatting bar contains several text formatting functions.

## Styles Styles Styles

Specifies whether to show or hide the Styles window, which is where you can assign and organise styles.

Styles

## Set Paragraph Style

Assigns a style to the current paragraph, selected paragraphs, or to a selected object.

Set Paragraph Style

## 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.

Italic

## Underline

Underlines or removes underlining from the selected text.

Underline

## Left

Aligns the selected paragraph(s) to the container left margin.

Align Left

## Centered

Centers the selected paragraph(s) on the surrounding container.

Align Centre HorizontallyCentred

## Right

Aligns the selected paragraph(s) to the container right margin.

Align Right

## Justified

Aligns the selected paragraph(s) to the left and the right container margins. If you want, you can also specify the alignment options for the last line of a paragraph by choosing Format - Paragraph - Alignment.

Justified

## Ordered List

Adds or removes numbering from the selected paragraphs.

Toggle Ordered List

## Unordered List

Assigns bullet points to the selected paragraphs, or removes them from bulleted paragraphs.

Toggle Unordered List

## No List

Removes numbering or bullets and list indenting for the current paragraph or selected paragraphs.

No List

## Decrease Indent

Click the Decrease Indent icon to reduce the left indent of the current paragraph or cell content and set it to the previous default tab position.

Decrease Indent

## Increase Indent

Click the Increase Indent icon to increase the left indent of the current paragraph or cell content and set it to the next default tab position.

Increase Indent

## 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

## Highlighting

Applies current highlighting colour to the character style or text selection.

Character Highlighting Colour icon

## Background Colour

Click to open a toolbar where you can click a background colour for a paragraph. The colour is applied to the background of the current paragraph or the selected paragraphs.

Background Colour

## Additional icons

## Increase Font

Increases the font size of the selected text.

## Reduce Font

Reduces the font size of the selected text.

If CTL support is enabled, two additional icons are visible.

## Left-To-Right

The text is entered from left to right.

## Right-To-Left

The text formatted in a complex text layout language is entered from right to left.