Character Formatting Controls
Control | How it works |
Font List | Select the text you'd like to change. Choose a new font family in the Font List drop-down menu. |
Font Style | Select the text you'd like to change. Choose a new font stlye in the Font Styl drop-down menu. |
Font Size | Select the text you'd like to change. Choose a new font size in the Font Size drop-down menu or manually enter a size. |
Leading | Select the text you'd like to change. Using the Leading drop-down menu, increase/ decrease buttons, or by manually entering a value, you can adjust the ammount of space above a line (or lines) of text. |
All Caps | Select the text you'd like to change. Click the All Caps button to capitalize all of the selected text. |
Small Caps | Select the text you'd to change. Click the Small Caps button to set the selected text to small caps (capitalized text that is the height of lowercase letters.) |
Superscript | Select the text you'd like to change. Click the Superscript button to shrink and raise the selected text. |
Subscript | Select the text you'd like to change. Click the Subscript button to shrink and lower the selected text. |
Underline | Select the text you'd like to change. Click the Underline button to add an underline to selected text. |
Strikethrough | Click the Strikethrough button to add a line through the horizontal center of selected text. |
Kerning | Place cursor between two characters you'd like to change. Use the drop-down menu or manually enter a value to increase or decrease the space between the characters. |
Tracking | Select the text you'd like to change. Use the drop-down menu or manually enter a value to increase or decrease the space between letters in selected text. |
Vertical Scale | Use the drop-down list or manually enter a value to vertically stretch selected text. |
Baseline Shift | Use the drop-down menu or manually enter a value to vertically shift the bottom position of selected text. |
Horizontal Scale | Use the drop-down list or manually enter a value to vertically stretch selected text. |
Skew | Use the increase/ decrease buttons or manually enter a value to stretch selected text along a diagonal plane. |
Fill Color | Use the drop-down menu to change the font color of selected text. A custom color can also be created and applied to selected text. |
Stroke Color | Use the drop-down menu to change the font color of selected text. A custom color can also be created and applied to selected text. |
Character Style | Click the Character Style button to create a new style based on the selected text or to apply a saved style |
Justification Styles | Click justification buttons to align selected text to left, right, or center of text box. |
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