How To Format Text
It is very easy to format text for a presenter. Autocue software includes all the tools you will be familiar with in word processors.
You can simply and quickly change the font type, font size, colour, text alignment and other parameters to get the text looking how you want.
Text Toolbar
The text formatting can be changed using the Text Toolbar. This is at the top of the screen above the Story Editor pane.
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Font: Use the font button to change the font type of the selected text.
Click the pull-down arrow to see a list of the available fonts.
Click on some text to see what font is already applied.
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Font Size: Use the text size button to change the font size of the text
Click on the pull-down arrow to see a list of the predefined text sizes.
If you want to use a different size do not click the pull-down. Select the text then click on the number under the word Size and type over with the new value.
Click enter or click out of the box to apply the new size.
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Foreground colour: use the Foreground button to change the colour of the text.
Click on the pull-down arrow to see a list of the predefined colours.
The letter A will always show in white, the line below will show the last selected colour.
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Swap: when text is selected, pressing this will swap the foreground and background colours.
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Background colour: use the Background button to change the colour of the text.
Click on the pull-down arrow to see a list of the predefined colours.
The paint-pot icon will always show in white, the line below will show the last selected colour.
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Bold & Italic: use the Bold button to toggle bolding of the selected text
Use the Italics button to toggle italicizing the selected text
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Underline: use the Underline button to change the colour of the underline.
Click on the pull-down arrow to see a list of the predefined colours.
The letter U will always show in white, the line below will show the last selected colour.
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Force Upper Case: click on this button to toggle the selected lower case text from lower to upper case.
Text which is already upper case will be unchanged.
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Text Justification: select your text and then use these buttons to left justify, centre, or right justify the selection.
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Bullet points: use this button to apply bullet points to the start of a line.
To apply bullet points to multiple lines select the lines you want and then click the bullet point button.
Use the pull down arrow to select different styles of bullet point: line, point or blank (shown as indented):
To remove an individual bullet point click the bullet point in the script and then click the bullet point button again.
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Indentation: you can select how indented you would like the bullet pointed text to be.
Click the left button to increase the indent.
Click the right button to decrease the indent.