Formatting characters without style sheets

You can manually apply individual characteristics to fonts without applying style sheets. If you apply a style to text that is manually formatted, the manual formats override the style sheet formats.

To format characters without style sheets:

  1. Select the text to format.

  2. From the Format menu, select Font. The Font dialog opens. This dialog includes two tabs — Font and Spacing.

  3. Use the options available on the Font tab to format the text.

To:

Do this:

Apply a font

From Font, select the one you want to use.

Apply a font set

Click Advanced, then Font Sets, and select the set you want to use.

Apply regular, bold, italics, or bold italics

From Font Style, select the format.

Change the font size

From Size, select the size.

Apply an underline style

From Underline, select the type of underline you want to use (single, double, etc.).

Apply highlighting (background shading)

From Highlight, select transparent or a specific color.

Change the font color

From Color, select the color.

Apply effects

Click the Effects check boxes to select the one(s) you want to apply.

Change font weight (Defines the font weight property to make it appear lighter or darker.)

Click Advanced. In Weight, select the font weight you want to use from the drop-down list.

 

Tip: You can also format text using the buttons available on the Formatting toolbar. For details, see Applying character formatting.