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 | Formatting |
| Overview |
| The Character Properties dialog |
| Adding Color |
| Adjusting Font Size |
| Inserting Horizontal Lines |
- Paragraph formats: includes heading levels and alignment options, and affects all paragraph in the selected block of text.
- Character formats: includes font types, styles, sizes, and colors.
Formatting
An overview of format styles in Composer
Remember, there are two types of format styles available to you in Composer:
The previous section discussed Paragraph formats. This section discusses Character formats.
Overview
You can apply character styles to one or more characters, within a paragraph, or spanning parts of multiple paragraphs. The following character styles are currently supported in the Composer and are available from Format|Character Properties, the Character Properties dialog, and the toolbar:
| Bold |
| Italic |
| Fixed width |
| Superscript |
| Subscript |
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| Underline |
Note: The JavaScript server and client tags are also treated as special character styles. For more information about applying JavaScript tags, see Using JavaScript.
The Character Properties dialog
About the Character Properties dialog
Lets you specify attributes such as size, color, style, and JavaScript for the selected character(s).
Font Face - Choose the font you wish to use.
Color - The color of the selected character(s). You can select to use the document's default text color or define a custom color.
Size - The point size of the selected character(s). This determines how large or small the characters appear. This box will be empty if the point size of the selected text varies. You can type a point size in the box or select one from the drop-down list. Default sets the size to that specified by the default paragraph style.
Style - The style of the selected character(s), such as italic, bold, or underline. You can also select to apply a special style called blinking which causes text to blink on and off. JavaScript Allows you to specify special JavaScript attributes for the selected character(s).
Remove Style Settings - Resets any style checkboxes you have marked to unselected.
Remove All Settings - Resets all settings you have made in this dialog box to unselected or blank.
Click OK to make the specified changes and close the dialog box. Click Apply to preview the changes you've specified and then click Close to accept the changes and exit the dialog box.
Adding Color
Applying color to selected text is a good way to emphasize different parts of your Web page.
- Select the text whose color you want to change and click the Font Color button on the
Format Tools toolbar. In Windows, you can also right-click your mouse on the selected text
to display the Character Properties dialog and select Custom Color.
- In the Color dialog, select a color or select Other to define your own custom color (below). You can specify default text color in the Appearance panel of the Composer Preferences dialog.
Adjusting Font Size
You can adjust font size by choosing Size from the Format menu or using the font size pulldown menu on the Formatting toolbar.
Inserting horizontal lines
To insert a horizontal line:
- Click the spot in the edit window where you want the line to appear.
- Click the Horizontal line toolbar button or choose Insert|Horizontal Line. Right-click on the line and choose Horizontal Line properties to specify alignment, width, height, and whether to use 3-D shading.
Tip: Double-clicking non-text objects in your document lets you modify their properties.