Break Up Text With Headings and Lists The longer the document, the more important headings become. Would you rather read a 20-page report that’s nothing but a wall of text from end to end? Or a 30-page report that’s organized into proper sections, subsections, and headings? I prefer the latter every time. Lists are also good for breaking up walls of text and drawing eyes to important points.

MS Excel 2011 for Mac: Change the font color based on the value in the cell This Excel tutorial explains how to use conditional formatting to change the font color based on the value of a cell in Excel 2011 for Mac (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

Am I wrong to expect the font style and size to remain constant? Everything appears set up as it should be, and as I say, I am definitely not bringing formatting tags in from another program, site or anywhere else. Everything looks fine as I write and send the email, it is only when I see the email as received by the recipient that the problem becomes evident.

Text now flows according to the settings you made, and the object is anchored to the position you selected. Although you can still drag the object to new positions on the page, it won’t move when you add or delete text.

The point size of a font tells you the size of the “em square” in which your computer displays each letter of the typeface. How tall or wide any given letter is depends on how the type designer drew it within the em square, thus a font’s height and width can vary greatly depending on the design of the typeface.

Your lament that Microsoft didn't get the basics right with Outlook 2011 is diametrically opposite the facts. Internet email is supposed to be cross-platform. To transform it into a collection of proprietary technologies is anything but 'basic.' Formatting messed up in Outlook calendar & contact notes too Ok, maybe it is not unreasonable for Microsoft to screw up pasting into HTML emails, though this will kill Outlook 2011 for them, since most Mac users will reasonably expect it to work like any other editor and users new to the Mac (likely most Outlook 2011 users) will expect it to work like it does on the PC, IOW, flawlessly. But do they have to screw up formatting in Outlook Contact notes and Calendar Notes too? Why are they even using HTML for Contacts notes? I can almost NEVER tell where something I paste into a contact note is going to end up.

I'm having a persistent problem with the spacing in a text document. Best programs for photo editing on mac. In the attached file, the problem is in the last line. If you open the document, you'll see that the last sentence is currently two 'words' and OO.o has inserted a huuuuge space between the two.

Tip: To copy the text formatting to several blocks of text, double-click, and then click the blocks of text in succession. When you are done, click again to turn off. See also PowerPoint Do any of the following: Copy formatting to another picture or object You can copy the formatting that you applied to an object and add it to another object. You can't, however, copy size or image effects such as distortions or blurring.

It’s possible that Pages is working from the descenders, but I’ve never seen another word processing program or a page design program that worked that way – not even the original. I’ve double-checked in the Inspector, and there’s no extra space set before or after paragraphs, so I’m at a loss as to why Pages should exhibit this weird behavior. Dan Your Pages Problems From Charles Szasz: Did you turn on invisibles to see the formatting of the document?