Font Toolbar

Font toolbar

The Font toolbar lets you change the font and its characteristics: size, styles such as bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and color. You can also highlight text.

To make any change to the text, highlight the text you want to change or position the cursor where you want the change to appear, then click the appropriate icon. If a drop-down menu appears, click your choice.

To toggle bold, italic or underline you can also use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-B, Ctrl-I or Ctrl-U.

For the Preview release, Buzzword provides seven fonts: Adobe Garamond Pro, Courier Std, Cronos Pro, Minion Pro (the default font), Myriad Pro, News Gothic Std, and Tekton Pro. When you click drop-down list next to the Font icon, a sample of each font appears.

Note: Because Buzzword is a web-based application, it includes its own fonts. When you share a document with someone, you can be sure that they see exactly the same document on their screen as you see on yours.
For information on using characters not on the standard keyboard, such as the em dash (—), see Insert Special Characters...

Sizes run from 8 points to 72, with the default set at 12 points.

You can format text as bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough — or any combination of the four.

To specify a color for the text, click the Text Color icon to display the palette. To specify a color for highlighting, click the Background Color icon.

Color Palette Notice the number that appears when you hover over a particular color. If you will want to match this color, make a note of the name of the row and the number of the color. In the example to the left, "hot 10" is selected.

The Background Color palette has an additional choice: “none,” which makes it easy to get rid of highlighting on selected text.