Questions tagged [formatting]
Styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colours, styles (boldface, italic), sizes and special features.
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How do I add new styles to Google docs?
Google docs has a nice set of styles such as "Normal text" and "Header 1".
How do I add my own? I want to add a style called "code" for text that is programming code.
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How can I get code syntax highlighting in Google Docs?
Is there way to switch on syntax highlighting in Google Docs?
Personally I use it for editing and collaborating on C++ files, but PHP or SQL syntax highlighting also would be interesting.
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How to insert source code in Google Docs? [duplicate]
Is there a easy way to insert source code with highlight in Google Docs?
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How do you manually block-quote in Gmail's new compose interface?
Gmail recently released a new UI for compose. How do you manually quote a paragraph? The block-quote button seems to have disappeared from the formatting toolbar in the rich text compose editor.
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What are all the formatting options for a Google+ post?
What is the markup language for creating posts (and responding to posts)?
I know of the following ones:
To make text bold, use stars around the text: *bold text*
To make text italics, use ...
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How to center a table in Google Docs?
Centering data within a table cell or cells in Google Docs is straightforward and easy (i.e., highlight and center).
How would I center an entire table?
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Always a blank line above where I insert a table?
In Google Docs, when I insert a table, there seem to be always a blank line above the table. See the screenshot below.
How do I prevent that?
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How to set a Google Docs Spreadsheet cell format to bare text?
I am to store international standard phone numbers (starting with a plus sign followed, usually, by plain numbers) in a Google spreadsheet column. An example of such a phone is
+420123456789
When I ...
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How do you format Facebook Wall posts?
There doesn't appear to be any formatting links when I do a Facebook Wall post. Is there any way to do formatting like HTML, markup, etc?
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How to change the default style of text links in Google Docs
I want to format the default style for text links—currently the color is blue & are underlined.
Is this possible? And if yes, how can I do it?
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Insert a table in Gmail
How can I create a table in a Gmail message? I've currently got the data in a Google Docs spreadsheet, but copying and pasting that into the Gmail editor just pastes tab-delimited columns, not a table....
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How do I change date and time formats in Trello?
How do I change the formatting of time and dates in Trello?
I'm looking to change the following:
time presentation to 24 hour clock instead of 12
date format to DD/MM/YY instead of MM/DD/YY?
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How NOT to bold text in WhatsApp & still use ** around text?
Now as WhatsApp offers options for bold, Italic & strike-through text, how not to make the text bold while still enclosing it in *. Any kind of escape character?
For example:
*test* will result ...
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Can you add basic text formatting (bold, italic) in Yammer posts?
When writing a post (or a comment on a post) in Yammer, is there any way to add basic text formatting such as bold or italic text?
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Change background color of single page in Google Document
I would like to know how to change the background color of the cover page of a multi-page Google Document.
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Write code with indentation in Google+'s stream
I am trying to paste a piece of code in my Google+ stream but it removes the white space from the start of the lines making the code less appealing, aesthetically speaking. Basically, the ...
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Is it possible to format small-caps in Google Documents?
I have found the need to format text in small caps (with minuscule letters looking like capitals, but still maintaining their size) in Google Docs. I have looked over, under, and in the Docs option ...
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Cell reference with colour formatting
Is it possible to reference a cell in Google Sheets so that cell where it gets displayed also displays it using the same text and cell colour formatting?
=A1
Will only reference cell's value. But if ...
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Shortcut key for monospaced character format in Confluence
I know the {{...}} markup but it's rather cumbersome.
Is there a shortcut key to set the selected text to monospace in Confluence or is it possible to set up one somehow?
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Can I add a line break in my Twitter bio?
My Twitter bio looks bad because the line is split at unfortunate places.
Can I force a line break at a particular place?
The form at https://twitter.com/settings/profile inserts carriage returns ...
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Formula for smart, scale-aware number-formatting in Google Sheets? (e.g. 1,024 → 1k, 1,816,724 → 1.8M)
Any recipes out there for a "smart" number formatting formula for Google Sheets that's "scale-aware," a la Rails ActionView's distance_of_time_in_words method?
I would expect to enter a number like: ...
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How to create a checkbox column, that if selected will create a strike-through across the entire row in Google Sheets?
I have a Google Sheets. I want to set it up so that the first column is checkboxes, and if the checkbox is selected, the entire row gets a strike-through.
How can I accomplish this?
I followed this ...
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How can I format text as code in Inbox by Gmail?
I sent an email today (or wanted to) from Inbox by Gmail and was disappointed at the apparent lack of ability to format text as code when compiling an email:
How can I format text as code (or ...
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Why is Gmail rich-text formatting so inconsistent when replied to via Outlook?
I use the Gmail web client with rich-text and often find that my emails look to be formatted consistently when I send them, however when Outlook users reply, the text in my original email often has ...
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How do I Insert a carriage return on a card in Trello?
I have added a card to a board in Trello, and now need to edit the text on that card.
How do I insert a carriage return? I have tried the following:
Shift + Return
Ctrl + Return
Shift + Ctrl + ...
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IMPORTRANGE with preserved formatting
I am importing a certain range of data from a master sheet and would like to maintain the formatting for those cells.
It seems as though this only works within a sheet: Cell reference with colour ...
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How can I stop Google Sheets formatting a Forms response as a date?
I have a Google Forms with a question that contains a drop-down box with the following values:
- Fewer than 10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- More than 50
If the user selects 11-25, Google Sheets renders the ...
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How to insert code in Google Drive documents [duplicate]
I use Google Drive Docs as my note taking tool and it is awesome since I can use it when I am offline, but I have a problem: I can't add source code in documents there. I know this question is ...
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How can I put an equation into a Google Docs Presentation and maintain the formatting?
I read a similar question on the Google Docs Help forums, but if I copy an equation that contains a symbol without using an image (such as the ∈ symbol), the symbol goes away in the presentation. Is ...
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Adding a header and footer to a Google Spreadsheet
I'm in the process of changing to Google Drive from MS Office for all aspects of my work. Pretty much everything I need is there, but the one thing we can't work out how to do is how to get a header ...
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How do I mix formats in one cell?
I've got a string like
="Daily Avg: " &AVERAGE(C3:C13)
I'd like to be able to apply number formats within my cell's formula. Is this possible without custom scripts?
I've searched Google's ...
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How can I align a table so that text floats around it in Google Docs?
I have some text in a Google Document, and I want to have a small table beside this text.
The problem is that the table takes the whole row, so I can't have any text left of the table.
Is it even ...
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How can I share common formatting between Google Documents?
I have a folder of about 20 Lesson Plans in Google Documents. Although I used an initial template with a bunch of custom formatting for Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. I now want to tweak the styles. Is ...
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How to left align dollar symbol but right align number?
I selected format -> number -> more formats -> custom number format:
$#,##0_);[Red]($#,##0)
How can prepend spaces between the $ symbol and the digits? Pad with spaces. So that the dollar sign is ...
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Formatting addresses in Trello with single line spacing
How do I use Markdown in Trello to format a simple address where address items are not all on the same line?.
Here's an example address I want to format:
George Smith 27 Smith Street Smithsville
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Adding a New Line on Facebook Comment
When I am commenting on Facebook, how do I insert a new line. Let us say, that I post a status. Friend A comments on it, followed by Friend B, followed by Friend C.
I am now posting a reply and I ...
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In Google Sheets, how does one get a 12-hour time of day *without* an AM/PM indicator?
I am trying to display times in Google Sheets without an AM/PM indicator, but with 12-hour time (not 24-hour "military-style" time). I do not need the AM/PM indicator as it is redundant in my ...
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Date and time format
I have lots of dates in the first column in the format output by IFTTT:
August 23, 2010 at 11:01PM
Is there a way to get them formatted in a way that I can then use for date and time calculations?
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Inserting page numbers in a Google Docs document
How do I add or insert a page number in the footer or header of a Google Docs document?
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Google Docs keeps reverting to Arial 11pt
I use Google Docs for typing up a lot of work, and I like to type it up in Garamond. However when I add line-breaks sometimes Google Docs decides to revert to Arial 11pt (the default style for a new ...
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Using the Google Documents equation editor, how can I enter the binomial coefficient?
It does not appear that you can enter the binomial coefficient or the choose-function of combinatorics. I'm trying to use the parenthesis in the third drop-down menu in the equation editor, but they ...
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How to add a line break in a custom date format in Google Spreadsheets?
Google Spreadsheets give us a tool to create and use a customized data format for date values.
While the tool allows us to use arbitrary characters, like slashes and commas between the date fields (...
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Format credit card numbers as four digit blocks in Google Sheets
I have this credit card number in a Google Sheets of the following format:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
How can I make it display like XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX or XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX where they're in four digit ...
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Using multi-line formatted text in wiki syntax
Using multi-line formatted text (using the <pre> tags) inside of a list in Mediawiki is giving me problems.
What I would love to do is something like this:
# Text in a numbered entry
#:<pre&...
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How to convert all numbers regardless of decimal separator into valid number of current locale?
I have a column with text looking like this:
123,123
123.123
123,123
123.123
I would like another column to parse this into decimal numbers, disregarding the different decimal separators (dot . and ...
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Formatting text in checklists in Trello, or embedding comments
How do I format text in a checklist, or embed comments, within a single checklist item in Trello?
I would like to provide additional notes and a hyperlink for several items in a checklist, but I ...
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Google Docs is altering my formatting, how can I avoid this?
I don't have a printer and I need a document printed. Thus, I've shared a very basic Google Docs document with someone who does have a printer.
Over here the formatting looks fine. Tabs are correct, ...
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Formatting bullet lists in Trello
The cards description field in Trello says they are supposed to accept markdown. However, I can't seem to be able to use stars to format a bullet list.
All my text is put on a single line, with ...
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How do I change date format at top of day in Google Calendar?
I can change the date format for most dates displayed by my calendar to Irish format, however I can’t find how to change this one.
The dates at the top of each day are shown as 5/17 or Month/Day—as a ...
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What are some good Web Tools to help me format my code for blogs? [closed]
What are some good Web Tools to help me format my code for blogs?
I'd like to be able to copy & paste my code into textbox/textarea and have the web tool format it nicely for various popular ...
