Text block tab (B)

Text blocks are free text boxes you can put anywhere on the page, separate from the table – for example for a title, a note or a footer.

Placing and editing a text block

1. Click in the designer where the block should go.
2. Click TBA.
3. Double-click the block (or press Enter / F2) to type the text.
4. Drag the block to move it. Drag the bottom-right corner to resize it.
5. The small button at the top left of a selected block opens this tab directly.

Add, delete and position

Button	Name	What does it do?
	Add text block	Creates a new text block where you last clicked in the designer.
	Delete text block	Deletes the selected block. Delete works too.
X	Move X	Horizontal position of the block in mm, measured from the zero point of the rulers.
Y	Move Y	Vertical position of the block in mm.

Move X and Move Y follow along when you drag the block with the mouse. So you can drag a block roughly into place and then set it to the exact millimetre.

Text formatting

Button	Name	What does it do?
	Bold	Bold on or off.
	Italic	Italic on or off.
	Underline	Underline on or off.
	Align left	Text on the left of the block.
	Centre	Text in the middle.
	Align right	Text on the right of the block.
■	Text colour	Colour of the text.
⇅	Font size	Size of the text (8 to 20).

If you are editing the text and have selected a part of it, bold, italic and underline apply only to that part. Without a selection they apply to the whole block.

Hyperlinks

Button	Name	What does it do?
	Create hyperlink	Turns the selected text into a hyperlink. First select the piece of text that should become a link.
	Delete hyperlink	Removes the hyperlink; the text stays.

Background and border

Button	Name	What does it do?
	Transparent	Turns a see-through background for the block on or off.
■	Text block colour	Background colour of the block (when it is not transparent).
⇅	Border width	Thickness of the border, 1 to 5.
─	Border style	None, solid, dashed, dotted or double.

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