QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

Fonts and Numbers

The fonts you use or the way you display numbers doesn't change the underlying financial message, but an attractive and easy-to-read report can make a good impression. Just like the fields that appear in the header and footer, you can set QuickBooks' preferences to assign the same font and number formats for all your reports (page 472).

On the other hand, changing fonts directly in a report is quick, and has the added advantage of letting you see exactly what the report looks like with the new formatting, as Figure 19-17 demonstrates.

Note

If you already have the Modify Report dialog box open, click the Fonts & Numbers tab. The Fonts section on the left side of the tab lists the different text elements of your report, such as Column Labels, Company Name, and Transactions. To change a font, select a text element and click Change Font, which opens the same dialog box you get when you right-click the element in the report.

Figure 19-17. Top left: When the mouse pointer changes to the QuickZoom icon, to change text formatting, right-click the text you want to format, such as a transaction. Top Right: When you change the format for text in a report, QuickBooks immediately displays it. If you don't like the format, right-click the text and try something else. Bottom: The title of the dialog box tells you which report element you're formatting; otherwise, the dialog box ...