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You can change the position and appearance of characters by displaying them as subscript or superscript, which is useful in drawings with scientific notations. If you select an OpenType font that supports subscript and superscript, you can apply the OpenType feature. However, if you select a font, including an OpenType font, that does not support subscript and superscript, you can apply a synthesized version of the character, which Corel DESIGNER produces by altering the characteristics of the default font character. For more information, see Working with OpenType features.
Artistic text with superscript (1) and subscript (2) applied
You can also add underlines, strikethrough lines, and overlines to selected characters.
Artist text with underline (1), strikethrough (2), and overline (3) applied to the text using both single and double line styles.
If you want to reuse the formatting of selected text, you can use styles or copy the text attributes and apply them to another text selection. For more information, see Working with styles and style sets and Copying object properties, transformations, and effects.
You can modify the behavior of the text cursor that displays onscreen and enable text highlighting, which is useful when formatting text.
In addition, you can change the text color and add a background color to paragraph text frames, the bounding box of artistic text, or selected text characters.
| To insert superscript or subscript text |  |
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Using the Text tool
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If the Property manager docker is not open, click Window  Property manager. |
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In the Property manager docker, click the Character button
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character-related options.
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In the Character area of the Property manager docker, click the Position button,
and choose one of the following options.
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None — turns off all the features in the list
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Superscript (auto) — applies the OpenType feature if the font supports it, or
applies a synthesized version if the font does not support superscript
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Subscript (auto) — applies the OpenType feature if the font supports it, or
applies a synthesized version if the font does not support subscript
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Superscript (synthesized) — applies a synthesized version of the superscript
feature, which looks the same as in previous versions of Corel DESIGNER
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Subscript (synthesized) — applies a synthesized version of the subscript
feature, which looks the same as in previous versions of Corel DESIGNER
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Some OpenType fonts may appear to support features that are unsupported.
For example, Superscript and Subscript options may appear available, but are
not. If you apply one of these OpenType fonts, Corel DESIGNER cannot
provide a synthesized version of Superscript and Subscript.
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| To underline, overline, or strikethrough text | |
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Using the Text tool
, select a character or a block of text.
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If the Property manager docker is not open, click Window Property manager. |
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In the Property manager docker, click the Character button
to display the
character-related options.
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In the Character area of the Property manager docker, click the arrow button
located at the bottom of Character area to display the additional character options.
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Perform one or more tasks from the following table.
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| To modify the text cursor behavior | |
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Click Tools Options.
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In the list of categories, click Text.
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In the Text cursor area, enable any of the following check boxes:
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Highlight formatting changes
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Enhanced text cursor
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and choose a style from the list box.