Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T0 TJ087LL/A User Manual

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  Text formatting functions     199

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Extend

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Strikethrough

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SmallCaps

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Superscript

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Subscript

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Uppercase

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Lowercase

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Titlecase

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WordUnderline

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DoubleUnderline

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AllStyles (all available styles)

TextStyleAdd(“Plaid”;Italic) returns the word 

 in italics.

TextStyleAdd(FirstName;Bold+Underline) returns 

 in bold, underlined 

text when the FirstName field contains Sophie.
The following calculation removes all styles from the text, then italicizes the entire phrase.

TextStyleAdd(TextStyleAdd(FirstName;Plain);Italic)
The following calculation creates two descriptions of styles, then concatenates two 
phrases using these styles. Using the Let function is an effective way to avoid creating a 

long and complex TextStyleAdd statement. 
Let([TitleStyle=Smallcaps+Titlecase;BodyStyle=Plain]; 
TextStyleAdd(titleField;titleStyle)&"¶¶" & 
TextStyleAdd(bodyField;BodyStyle))
In the following example, you might want to find every occurrence of several words and 
change their style. Using the Substitute function combined with the TextStyleAdd 

function is a good way to accomplish this goal.
Substitute(ArticleBody;[“Phrase1”;TextStyleAdd(“Phrase 1”;Italic)];[“Phrase 
2”;TextStyleAdd(“Phrase 2”;Bold)];)

TextStyleRemove(text;styles)

text - any 

styles - any named style from the list of available styles