Text Styling

The templating engine provides a set of functions to apply style to a text:

Function	Effect	Example
bold	Bold	{{bold .Text}}
italic	Italic	{{italic .Text}}
underline	Underline	{{underline .Text}}
strike	Strikethrough	{{strike .Text}}
fontSize	Font size in points	{{fontSize .Text 14}}
color	Text color	{{color .Text "FF0000"}}
highlight	Word text highlight	{{highlight .Text "yellow"}}
shadeTextBg	Background shading behind text	{{shadeTextBg .Text "EEEEEE"}}

Color and shading functions accept a six-digit hexadecimal RGB value, with or without a leading #.
For example, "FF0000" or "#FF0000".

While highlight takes a Word highlight color name, such as yellow.

Combine styles

Use inlineStyledText to apply multiple styles to one value. Style order is flexible; use the tokens below:

{{inlineStyledText .Text "b" "i" "fs:14" "#FF0000" "bg:#C0FFEE"}}

Style	Accepted tokens
Bold	b, bold
Italic	i, italic
Underline	u, underline
Strikethrough	s, strike, strikethrough
Font size	fs:<size>, fontSize:<size> (for example, fs:14)
Text color	RRGGBB, #RRGGBB
Background shading	bg:RRGGBB, bg:#RRGGBB
Highlight	A Word highlight color name, such as yellow

or you pass the styles as a list with styledText:

{{styledText .Text (list "b" "i" "fs:14")}}

list is a built-in helper that constructs the slice of style values.

Dynamic styles

This also enables a go slice to be passed as argument. Example:

{{styledText .Text .Style}}

where .Style contains the style tokens.

{
  "Text": "Hello World",
  "Style": ["#F0F0F0", "bg:#FF0000", "b", "i", "u", "s", "fs:20"]
}

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Preserve line breaks

For values containing newline characters, choose how those newlines should appear in Word:

• {{preserveNewline .Text}} turns newlines into line breaks within the same paragraph (Shift+Enter).
• {{breakParagraph .Text}} turns newlines into separate paragraphs (Enter).

For the complete function reference, see Built-in functions.