Adding formatting to text (bold, italic, superscript etc.)

You can apply styling to text within your document. In most cases, if a whole element requires to be styled in a particular way, Lawmaker will style it automatically (e.g. headings to sections in a Bill will appear in bold). But sometimes you need to format a particular word or phrase with a particular style.

The styles that you can apply manually are:

• Bold

• Italic

• Underline

• Superscript

• Subscript

How to apply formatting

In the Editor, highlight the text to be formatted and use the Format menu to select a style. The text selected must be within the same paragraph – you cannot cross element boundaries.

You can also use the following keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl+B - Bold

• Ctrl+U - Underline

• Ctrl+I - Italic

• Ctrl+Shift++ - Superscript

• Ctril+Shift+- - Subscript

You can can apply more than one style to the same text.