Fonts Menu

Character Formatting

To apply character formatting to a single word, double click the word. To apply character formatting to several words or a few characters within a word, select the text.

Fonts

Choosing this Menu item brings up the Font Dialog. To apply character formatting to a single word, click the word. To apply character formatting to several words or a few characters within a word, select the text.

Select the following:

Font: Font Style (Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic)

Font Size: Effects (Strikethrough and Underline)

Font Color: Individual font types and colors can be chosen for words, sentences or paragraphs or the whole document.

Character Spacing

Changes the spacing between characters

To do so:

• Select the text you want to change.
• Choose Character Spacing from the Fonts menu.
• Click on Expand or Condense in the Options box.
• Specify how much space you want in the Adjustment box.

Note: You might want experiment with the Adjustment numbers to see what affect they have. Start with the number 10 and increase.

Selecting Expand or Condense alters the spacing between all selected letters by the same amount.

Character Style

Use this option to apply a style sheet styles to the selected text.

The style is chosen from a list containing character style names.

To create a new style:

• Select the Edit Style option from the 'Edit' menu.

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