I am trying to show a tick mark (character code 0xFC) belonging to Wingdings font on a static text element in Jaspersoft Studio. But this tickmark doesn't appear when I do a preview of the report.
What I have done so far.
Dragged a static text element onto the report
Changed the font to wingdings and entered the text as 0xFC
On clicking preview I only see see 4 boxes & not the tick mark
Note: I do have this font on my computer.
I think I found the solution. Earlier I was trying to enter character code in the text box. Now I copied the font from the character Map to MS Word & from there I copied the font to my report. Now it seems to appear correctly
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Whenever I type into a text field and click on the special characters button & then try to edit past text by clicking in between some of the letters, it'll automatically highlight all of the text instead of showing the original single cursor sitting between 2 letters. This can be a bit annoying and confusing for the user experience. Is there any quick fix for this?
Note: I'm using a real device (Samsung Galaxy S8)
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Trying to edit text before clicking on special characters button:
Trying to edit text after clicking on special characters button:
In MS Word, I copy in text that includes superscripting and other properties. I want to leave that alone and change the font color using a style. I've tried to create both paragraph and character fonts, but each changes properties besides font color. Is there a way to change only font color?
When you create your style leave all formatting blank. Go to the bottom of the Modify Style dialog box and you will see a dropdown for Format. Click on this. You will have to set superscript and color, this will set it as superscript and color. Unfortunately you'll have to use this style just for the superscript text and another style for the rest of the paragraph.
The only other way to do it might be through a macro.
I'm able to highlight text but I'd like to use custom highlight colors. Even if I define custom colors, Word seems to use one of the colors in the default palette that it thinks is closest.
myRange.font.highlightColor = "#ffcc00"; // Should be orange. Comes out red
That color should come out orange but it comes out red.
Any ideas?
Word does not support custom highlight colors - only the traditionl, basic sixteen colors. This is a limitation of the Word application, not the Office JS APIs.
It would be possible to apply custom colors using Shading, however (as in borders and shading).
Here's a work-around to the problem of defining custom highlight colors which I discovered quite some time ago ..
If you paste in highlighted text copied from an application from outside of Word (i.e., highlighted text from an AOL email let's say), you can then:
Use the insertion bar to select and highlight an area of the text you just pasted in
Press the FORMAT PAINTER tool to copy the formatting of the area you've selected. The pointer changes to a PAINTBRUSH icon (with an insertion bar attached)
Move the PAINTBRUSH to the existing Word text that you want to highlight using the new color
Press and hold the mouse button (usually the left button) while selecting the specific text
Release the mouse button to apply the new highlighting and formatting
The applied highlighting will also include any other existing formatting; so you MAY have to change the font or adjust some other feature (i.e., turn on/off bold, italics, underline, etc.) But this is easily accomplished. The point is that you can now have ANY color highlighting that you prefer – this hack absolutely DOES work!
Here's, one last thing – when you save the document (by clicking the OFFICE BUTTON in the upper left corner), I would advise that you first select WORD OPTIONS, then SAVE and check the box next to "Embed fonts in the file" under "Preserve fidelity when sharing this document" (I always uncheck the other two boxes). This is to ensure that before you export or print the document, you may be sure that all the fonts and features have been saved within it.
And for the record, this technique is NOT shading.
The highlighting comes from actual HIGHLIGHTED TEXT copied from a document or application from OUTSIDE of Word. So it has nothing whatsoever to do with Word's shading feature. I've even copied highlighted text from non-dedicated word processing applications, and then pasted the text into Word – where it is then available to apply the copied highlighting to text within the existing Word document.
If you think about it – the fact that Word 2007 permits you to define any THEME color you want clearly shows that one should be able to define ANY desired custom HIGHLIGHTING color as well – besides just the 15 basic colors (and excluding the "no color"). And this work-around proves that this is so. The problem is that the Word application itself does not permit you to accomplish this directly.
A little confused at the purpose of the "tab size" in GitHub's markdown editor. When changing the value in the dropdown, it seems to have an effect in the "Edit File" tab but not the "Preview" tab. Nor does it have an effect after saving.
Bottom line, I'd like my tab size to be 2 when displayed in my repository readme, instead of 8 which makes the markup seem disorganized.
Thanks for your help.
You need to manually convert all the existing tabs to spaces in the document.
Changing the setting in your editor/IDE or on GitHub (to use spaces) does not change any existing text in the document. It only affects any new text you add to the document. If the existing content includes tab characters, you need to convert those to spaces for consistency. While you would need to manually change each instance on GitHub, your local editor/IDE should have a function to do that document wide from a single command (usually called something like "convert tabs to spaces").
By way of explanation, when a tab is inserted in a document, all that happens is a tab character is inserted. No information is included indicating how wide that tab character should be. Each document viewer will have its own setting indicating how wide a tab character should be and if those settings do not match, then the document will display differently in each context. For example, the GitHub editor can be configured to be different that the default. However, the rendered preview does not have any settings so you only get the default tab wide (8 chars on GitHub).
For that reason, most editors/IDEs include a setting to insert spaces when you type the tab key. That insures that every tab is exactly the same width across all viewers anywhere. However, the "spaces" feature of editors works by intercepting the press of the tab key on your keyboard and replacing the tab with the set number of spaces. Therefore, actual space characters get inserted into your document and there are no tab characters (the editor hides this by also intercepting backspace key presses). The important thing to note is that this feature works by intercepting and altering key presses on the keyboard. Therefore, it has no effect on text already in the document. Which is why you need to convert the existing text. Fortunately, the "convert tabs to spaces" feature of most editors/IDEs will use the tabs/spaces settings when doing the conversion, so running that command once should fix the entire document as long as your settings are configured properly.
Most editors/IDEs also have a "show whitespace" (or "view whitespace)" feature, which can be used to confirm the conversion was done properly. When "show whitespace" is turned on, tabs display as an arrow and spaces as dots (usually a lighter gray than the surrounding text). If you have converted your entire document. you should see no tab arrows anywhere, only dots for spaces. Once you are satisfied that no tabs exist, you can then turn "show whitespace" off. Unfortuntely, GitHub's online editor does not offer this feature, so you'll need to use your local editor.
I want to remove space before footer in word file. I am using 15.37 version of Word on Macbook. I have tried the method mentioned in https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010se-word/how-can-i-remove-the-space-above-the-footnote/6bcb9853-74d9-41c0-afd3-9a5c3394171c?page=1&auth=1 but still not solved.
I want to remove space mentioned in red box and it only appears on the first page only.
I have also attached the screenshot of my paragraph setting. Thanks in advance.
You can go to Header and Footer section in Word. Adjust Footer from Bottom in the top-right corner. It will reduce the space between actual text and footer section.