How to format text on a page

You can format the text within your text boxes in a few different ways following these steps:

• Click on the text box containing the text you want to edit. You will see the right hand tool bar will become the 'textbox Properties'.
• Make sure the tick box next to 'Use global style' is not ticked, (circled in the image below) as you will see more editing options.
• Within this tool bar you can edit the text box as a whole, e.g. change the font size, colour and type.
• If you want to edit some of the text, but not all of it (e.g. if you want to some some words in bold, but keep others as they are), you will need to click on the 'Edit Text' button.
• Your text will appear in a new window. You can then highlight the parts you want to edit, instead of changing the look of the whole text box.

Lines, Curves and Shadow

The properties menu for rounded corners and shadows

You can make the edges of your textboxes rounded or shaded using the options in the style properties menu. To make your boxes rounded change the figures in the TL (top left), TR (top right), BL (bottom left) and BR (bottom right) boxes.

NB: To be able to see your rounded corners, you will need to make sure that the border of your text box is wide enough to show up (by default the border of a text box is not set to show). This can be changed using the border width option in the style properties menu.

Shadows can be added by selecting the Use drop shadow option.

Blur size refers to how blurred you want the shadow to be. A smaller number will result in a deeper block colour, whilst a larger number will result in a more blurred colour.

X offset refers to how far to the left of the text box that you want the shadow to be. A minus number will move the shadow to the left side of the text box.

Y offset refers to how far from the top of the text box that you want the shadow to be. A minus number will move the shadow to the bottom of the text box.

You can also put lines, curves or other shapes into your LifeGuide intervention by using the tools in Microsoft PowerPoint and saving the shapes as an image. These images are then inserted into your intervention page in the same way as other image files in LifeGuide (see images).