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Adobe InDesign 2025 Basics | macOS Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting to Your Class Folder
    • Creating a Project Folder
    • Opening InDesign
    • Creating a New Document
    • Opening an Existing InDesign Project
    • Saving Your Project
  • Working with text
    • Creating a Text Box
    • Moving a Text Box
    • Resizing a Text Box
    • Deleting a Text Box
    • Using Overset Text Button
    • Formatting Text
    • Character Formatting Controls
    • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Working with tools
    • Selection Tools
    • Drawing and Type Tools
    • Transformation Tools
    • Modification and Navigation Tools
  • Working with images
    • Adding an Image to Your Document
    • Resizing an Image and Its Frame
    • Resizing and Repositioning an Image in Its Frame
    • Changing Object Stacking Order
    • Wrapping Text to an Image
    • Deleting an Image
  • Working with shapes, strokes, and color
    • Creating a Shape
    • Creating a Line
    • Creating a Custom Color
    • Creating a Gradient
    • Changing the Fill Color of a Shape
    • Changing the Color of a Stroke
    • Changing the Weight of a Stroke
    • Changing the Stroke Type
    • Removing a Stroke
  • Working with layers
    • Selecting a Layer
    • Locking or Unlocking a Layer
    • Changing Layer Visibility
    • Creating a New Layer
    • Moving a Layer
    • Deleting a Layer
  • Exporting a PDF
    • Exporting a PDF
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  1. Working with text

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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