Cathy, I assume you have Rulers showing, so that on the right side of the ruler you have a scroll down menu for font and one for size. I wish they also had one for text color. Anyone know how to put that in the Ruler?
Anne Cartwright On Sunday, August 14, 2005, at 02:16 PM, Green, Cathy wrote: > Greetings group! > Thought I'd tap once again the expertise of this knowledgeable group > to see if you can solve this one:? The one thing about MS Word that I > like is the fact that the fonts in the pull-down menu are actually > written in that font so you know what it looks like before choosing > it.? As a long-time AW user, that's where my comfort zone & > preferences lie, instead of with Word.? But to change the font, you > have to select it first & then type some words to see what that > particular font is, which is not as convenient as it is in Word.... > > I once heard that you can change this somewhere so that Appleworks' > pull-down font menu does the same thing Word's does.? Would any of you > know if this is true, and if so, how to do this?? Hopefully, yes, and > that it will be something easy to do to set that as a default without > having to do things in unknown (to me) places like the terminal and > without a working knowledge of one programming script or another.? But > in the event it doesn't, there is someone out there with the expertise > and patience to type out step-by-step instructions... > > TIA, > Cathy??? > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1764 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050814/8b4e2a88/attachment.bin
