DescTools (version 0.99.19)

WrdFont: Get or Set the Font in Word

Description

WrdFont can be used to get and set the font in Word for the text to be inserted. WrdFont returns the font at the current cursor position.

Usage

WrdFont(wrd = DescToolsOptions("lastWord"))
WrdFont(wrd) <- value

Arguments

value

the font to be used to the output. This should be defined as a list containing fontname, fontsize, bold and italic flags: list(name="Arial", size=10, bold=FALSE, italic=TRUE, color=wdConst$wdColorBlack).

wrd

the pointer to a word instance. Can be a new one, created by GetNewWrd() or an existing one, created by GetCurrWrd(). Default is the last created pointer stored in DescToolsOptions("lastWord").

Value

a list of the attributes of the font in the current cursor position:

Details

The font color can be defined by a Word constant beginning with wdConst$wdColor. The defined colors can be listed with grep("wdColor", names(wdConst), val=TRUE).

See Also

ToWrd, WrdPlot, GetNewWrd, GetCurrWrd

Examples

## Not run:  # Windows-specific example
# 
# wrd <- GetNewWrd()
# 
# for(i in seq(10, 24, 2))
#   ToWrd(gettextf("This is Arial size 
# 
# for(i in seq(10, 24, 2))
#   ToWrd(gettextf("This is Times size 
# ## End(Not run)