Format Toolbar
Use the Format toolbar to set the font and colours of text-based components. You can also control the layering of components with this toolbar.
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Name - Shows the name of the font chosen for the selected component. |
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Size - Shows the size of the font chosen for the selected component. |
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Bold - Sets text to bold. |
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Italic - Sets text to italic. |
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Underline - Underlines text |
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Left Justify - Left justifies text. |
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Centre - Centres text. |
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Right Justify - Right justifies text, as would be usually used for numbers |
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Fully Justify – Fully justifies paragraphs of text, usually used in memo fields. |
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Font Colour - Sets the text colour. |
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Highlight Colour - Sets the background colour. |
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Anchor - New anchor property allows control to reposition itself when layout changes. |
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Border - New border property for all controls. |
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Bring to Front - Brings a component to the front of other components. Ideally a text label should be in front of all graphic elements. |
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Send to Back - Sends a component to the back of the other components. You can use the Report Tree to see the exact layering of the components within the band. |
Note: When layering (placing objects on top of each other) the latest object placed is on the upper most layer. Therefore if inserting a shape, it needs to be sent to the back so that it does not hide labels in the report.