Interesting word when you look into it.My first google of word and outlining text finds how to get the outline around the letters in the font (no font fill, LO character style outline), then how to control lists (outlining) but I suspect the original poster is interested in what I would call highlighting (character background colour, may be he wants a box around the words he selects).
I found a button in LO that applies a character background colour, but that was all. I ended up typing some text, highlighting it, right click character, added an over line and 20% gray background. I then opened styles (F11), , clicked the character styles, new style from selection and called it highlighting. Now whenever I want to highlight some text I just select it and double click the highlighting style. Prints well too. I can even use the styles painting thing (fill format mode) and just work through my document highlighting as I go.
So thanks, I have learned something new and useful in LO by looking into this thread (just like I learned the other day that you can select a block of numbers in calc first, then click the sigma to create a sum rather than fiddling with the box that comes up when you click sigma first)
steve On 2013-03-23 12:20, anne-ology wrote:
Another good thought. And if you wish to make a box, then make an image where you can insert whatever inside should work; this image can be placed in any document as any other image. On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>wrote: I'm sure it's not quite what you want, but in the Character/Font Effectsdialog, you can insert an overline and an underline on the highlighted text. You just don't get the right and left side of the box. Virgil From: Dave Liesse Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 2:15 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Text Outlining One of the writers in the Windows Secrets newsletter recently compared OO and LO to MS Office, and I have to agree with him when he implied the LO web site is somewhat disorganized and confusing. Thus, this posting that is probably an enhancement request, but I can't find anywhere else to do such a thing. I've used OO and LO for several years, and have found very little that I did in Office that I can't do now. One thing, though, is beyond the nuisance level but short of being a game stopper. I need the ability to outline text within a paragraph. I know a block of text can be highlighted with a different background or foreground color, but I need something that can actually be useful in a printed document. Sometimes underlining is insufficient, because it's not distinguishable from other underlined text. As an example of what I want, just envision a box around "what I want" in this sentence. Obviously, outlining a paragraph doesn't do the trick. Anyway, that's what I'd like to see sometime -- or, if I'm missing how to do it now, somebody please let me know! Dave
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