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5) Type the heading Meals.
6) Use the spacebar to move the cursor to the center of snack area.
7) Type the heading Snacks.
8) Use the Enter key to move the cursor between the Supper control and the subform.
9) Use the spacebar to move the cursor to the center of the subform.
10) Type the heading Fuel Data.
Note
If you know how to use styles, you can open the Styles and Formatting window
using F11. Right-clicking the Heading 2 paragraph style allows you to modify the
appearance of all three headings. See Chapter 6 of the Writer Guide for details.
Step 10: Change the background of a form.
The background for a form can be a color, or a graphic (picture). You can use any of the colors in
the Color Table at Tools → Options → LibreOffice → Colors. If you know how to create custom
colors, you can use them. You can also use a picture (graphic file) as the background.
If you choose a dark background, you many need to change many of the labels and headings so
they can be seen.
1) Select the labels of the top row of controls.
a) Control+click the Date label.
b) Control+shift+click the rest of the labels of the top row. The border will gradually grow
to the right as you do this until all the labels are enclosed in it.
Figure 205: Selecting multiple labels at one time
c) Click the Control icon in the Design Form toolbar to open the Properties dialog.
d) Change the Background color selection from Default to Light cyan. (This is a
dropdown list.) Close the Properties dialog.
2) Select the other labels in the same way and then change their background color.
3) To change the font color for the headings:
a) Open Styles and Formatting using the F11 key. Make sure the Paragraph icon is
selected at the left end of the icons in Error: Reference source not found.
Figure 206: Styles and Formating window
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