Changing string format (font weight, etc.)

[Cosmic P]

Can I change the properties of a text?
Can I also do this for the contents of a user field?

[pitonyak]

Read Setting Text Attributes in my free macro document.
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[DannyB]

See this example.....

Altering CharacterProperties of Text
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6195

One subroutine is used to change the color and Bold of some text. But the subroutine is called to manipulate a Text on three different document types: Calc, Writer and Draw. This shows that you can use the same type of code to manipulate the attributes of Text in any kind of document.

See Also....

Writer Examples
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6049
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Want to make OOo Drawings like the colored flower design to the left?

[Cosmic P]

Well I tried a few things, but what I actually wanted to do, seems impossible.

I'm making a few multi languange templates for the office. The user can choose between English, German and French. All the information is put into arrays and will be inserted automatically.

The texts will be put into user fields like this:

line1 & Chr(13) & line2 & Chr(13) & line3

All should be formatted differently. Therefor I'd like to format the variables before there put into the user field, but this seems impossible because CharHeight(), CharColor(), etc. only apply to object type variables, and not to string type variables.

Possibly I could put some routine together to select the text with a TextCursor() by using the functions Mid() and Len(), but isn't there an easier way?

Or would it be possible to simply select all the contents of a user field?

[Ernst Lustig]

Sounds amazing, but it is obviously not possible to pass along the formatting properties together with the content.
But since you must know the content and where to put the content, it should be easy to select the content immediately after inserting and apply formatting.

[Cosmic P]

I somehow can not create a text cursor within a user field. No matter what I try, nothing works here: "object variable not set", "variable already defined differently", "invalid use of method", "property or method not found", ...

Any help?

[pitonyak]