I just tried Dave's method, and it worked flawlessly (LO 5.2.6.2 on Mac OSX).
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Steve Edmonds <steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com> wrote: > > > On 09/06/17 00:01, Dave wrote: > >> On 08.06.2017 12:41, Steve Edmonds wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> Trying to imitate a layout from MS word (words around a circle) in >>> writer. >>> >>> I can enter the words, get the shape, colour, etc. but in writer can't >>> change the font. >>> If I do the same in draw the properties side bar has Character where I >>> can change the font. >>> In writer the sidebar does not have Character. >>> LO 5.1.4.2 >>> Am I missing something, help appreciated. >>> Steve >>> >> Hi Steve, >> >> Double click on the Fontworks object to access the underlying text. >> Select/highlight (eg. Shift + Home keys) the displayed text and choose >> the required font from the style drop-down or that sidebar thing. >> Click outside of the Fontworks object to finish. >> Note: Fontworks is converting normal fonts into vector shapes, so some >> results may not always be pleasing. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Dave >> > Thanks Dave, but that didn't work. The highlighted text changes (and stays > changed) but the changes don't go show in the fontwork text. LO 5.1 and > 5.2, OSX, Win and Linux. > steve > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns > ubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
