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To modify a character style:

1 Click the Character Styles button in the format bar and select the character style that

most closely matches the style you want to design, or select None.

2 Type some text, and then apply some attributes.

Select a font typeface and size. For more information, see “Making Text Bold, Italic, or

Underlined” on page 83.

Set the text color. For information about changing the color of text, see “Changing Text

Color” on page 93.

Set the character spacing. For more information about setting character spacing, see

“Setting Text Alignment, Spacing, and Color” on page 90.

3 Use the More pane of the Text inspector to specify additional attributes.

Language: Choose a language for spell-checking a paragraph, a range of words, or

newly typed text that follows an insertion point. If your document includes quotations

or sections in another language, you can choose a spelling dictionary in that language

for checking the text of the quotations or sections. The spelling dictionary determines

how words are spelled or hyphenated.

Remove ligatures: A ligature is a stylish ourish between letters or at the end or

beginning of lines. Ligatures are used by some fonts to combine two or more text

characters into one glyph. Select this checkbox if you don’t want to use ligatures

in a selected paragraph that has ligatures turned on. (To turn ligatures on for the

document, select “Use ligatures” in the Document pane of the Document inspector.

If any text is selected when you remove ligatures, the change will be applied to the

selected text as a style override, unless you complete step 4, below.)

Baseline Shift: A negative number places the text lower than the surrounding text.

A positive number places the text higher than the surrounding text. Enter a number

in the eld. (If any text is selected when you set the baseline shift, the change will be

applied to the selected text as a style override, unless you complete step 4, below.)

4 In the Styles drawer, click the arrow to the right of the character style name, and then

choose an option.

Redene Style from Selection: Redenes the existing character style for the whole

document. If you choose this, your formatting changes will apply to all other instances

of this style throughout the document.

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