CHAPTER
28
FORMATTING TEXT
You can control all aspects of text formatting in Canvas. This chapter
explains how to specify font, font styles, type size, character position
and scaling, kerning, letter and word spacing, paragraph alignment
and spacing, and hyphenation. This chapter also explains how to
select text for formatting and how to apply format settings.
You can also save format settings as named character and paragraph
styles so you can use them again.
Selecting text and objects
The following section is a review of some basic selection techniques
used to format text.
To select and deselect text objects
You can select text objects the same way you select other objects in
Canvas.
To select a single object, use a Selection tool to click the
text object or drag a selection rectangle around the object.
To select multiple objects, hold down the shift key and click
text objects with a Selection tool. You can also drag a selec-
tion rectangle around all the objects you want to select.
To deselect an object, press the Shift key and click the
object. Other objects remain selected.
To deselect all objects, press the Enter key (Mac) or Esc key
(Windows) twice, or click an area of the screen where there
are no objects.
To select all text objects
To select all text objects with a single command, select the Text tool
in the Toolbox and then choose Edit > Select All.
In an Illustration document, this procedure selects all text
objects on the current layer.
In a Publication document, this procedure selects all text
objects on the current page or current two-page spread.
In an Animation document, this procedure selects all text
objects on the current layer of the current frame.