Harold Fuchs-3 wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:20 AM [GMT+1=CET], david potter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used Microsoft Excel until I retired 11 years ago. I now have a
>> need to use spreadsheets again and have downloaded the free version
>> of Open Office. Generally I am finding it great but obviously there
>> are differences. Some I am managing to work out but others prove
>> refractory.
>>
>> 1.. <snip>
>> 2.. The second thing is an observation. I wanted to highlight
>> text. I went to the Help facility and found a familiar icon
>> (superscript ab with below a diagonal pen leading to a coloured line
>> at the bottom). I could not find this icon on any of the toolbars in
>> Calc. that I looked at (those that by name seemed relevant). By
>> examining the icons on the Formatting Toolbar I soon found one with
>> what looked like paint being poured from a pot. It highlighted any
>> cell or selection of cells that I wanted but would not highlight a
>> selection of words from a sentence in a cell. This is fine as you
>> can do the latter by changing the text colour and I really wanted to
>> colour the background to words as you would in a text document. I
>> wonder if this information about the icon and how to use it in a
>> spreadsheet could be included in the Help function? Or, maybe it is
>> there but I was unable to find it. I notice that the familiar Icon
>> that I found in help was in the Writer section. I had tried looking
>> in several other highlight help areas but without success.
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dave Potter
> 1. Menu item Window>Freeze. Click in A2 and then Window>Freeze to freeze
> row 1; click in B1 and then Window>Freeze to freeze column 1; click in
> B2 and then Window>Freeze to freeze row 1 *and* column 1.
>
> 2. As far as I know Calc only has Cell and Page styles; seems you can't
> go to a lower level of detail than the cell.
>
> Harold Fuchs
> London, England
>
>
I don't know about icons. Double-click on your cell, highlight the
characters you want to format and select Format >Character. (Background of
characters is not available on my version (2.0.2))
Regards.
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