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• Or manually increase/decrease font size with the "Ctrl + Shift + >" and "Ctrl + Shift + <"
keyboard shortcuts. This applies only if all selected text parts are of the same font
size.
• Or use the SELECTORTOOL to scale the whole text object.

Bold & Italic
Click the BOLD or ITALIC button on the InfoBar ("Ctrl + B" or "Ctrl + I")

This applies the bold or italic variant of the current font.

Text Underlining
Click the underline button on the InfoBar to apply an underline to the selected
text.
The underline color and size is automatically derived from the text color and size.

Underlining links
When you add a web address URL to some text, see the Web address dialog. You can
decide to automatically underline all links. This is a check box option on the web address
dialog ("Ctrl + Shift + W"). If you select this all linked text throughout the document is
underlined, and the underline command does not affect this.

If you apply a URL to a group that contains some text, then the text will not be
underlined.

Text Strikethrough
Click the strikethrough button on the InfoBar to apply a strikethrough to the
selected text.
The strikethrough color and size is automatically derived from the text color and size.

Highlighting text
To apply a text or paragraph background color - in effect a highlighter-style background
color...

• Highlight some text using the TEXT TOOL
• Right-click on a color in the COLOR LINE
• Select SET TEXT BACKGROUND or SET PARAGRAPH BACKGROUND from the menu

See Applying a Text Background color (on page 192) for more details.