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Specifies font and style characteristics for your chart elements.

You can use the settings on the font dialog box to adjust the basic look and feel of your text. Any changes you make will be reflected in the Preview box so that you have an idea of what the text will look like before you save the changes.

Font

Displays a list of the available fonts on your computer. To change the font, select the font you want from the list.

Font style

Specifies whether the text is regular, italic, bold, or bold and italic.

Size

Specifies the point size of selected text. A point is a traditional measure used by typesetters and is equal to 1/72 of an inch. To ensure readability for most documents and users, use a size of eight points or larger.

Underline

Specifies whether selected text is underlined and the underline style. Click None to remove underlining. Choose Single for one line of underling or Double to displays two lines for underline.

Color

Specifies the color of the selected text. In the box, select a color. Clicking Automatic applies the color defined in Microsoft Windows Control Panel. By default, that color is black unless you change it. In paragraphs with shading of 80 percent or more, clicking Automatic changes the text to white.

Effects

Specifies any text effects. Select Strikethrough to draw a line through the selected text. Select Superscript to raise the selected text above the baseline. Select Subscript to lower the selected text below the baseline.

Preview

This box displays a preview of the various font options you selected.

Change the font and size of text in a chart

Change the font on a datasheet

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