Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To change the default text style
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To change character properties
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To change the text color
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To change the text case
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To resize text
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To greek text

Changing the basic properties of text

You can enhance both artistic text and paragraph text by modifying the character properties. You can also change the default text style, so that the same properties are applied to all new artistic or paragraph text. For example, you can change the font type and size, or change the text to bold or italic.

You can change the text format to subscript or superscript, which is useful if a drawing contains scientific notation. You can also add underlines, strikethrough lines, and overlines to text. In addition, you can change the thickness of these lines and change the distance between the lines and the text. For information about previewing fonts, see Previewing and identifying fonts.

You can change text to lowercase or uppercase without deleting or replacing letters. You can also increase or decrease font size by a specified increment. By default, the unit of measure is points. You can change this setting for the active drawing and all subsequent drawings that you create, so that the new unit of measure is used in all font settings.

If you need to increase the redraw speed for text that is smaller than a specific font size, you can use lines to represent the text. This method, called “greeking” text, is useful for creating prototypes of documents or drawings. You can make text readable again by reducing the greeking value or by zooming in on the text.

To change the default text style Back to Top
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Using the Pick tool , click a blank space in the drawing window.
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In the Character formatting docker, change any of the text properties.
If the Character formatting docker does not appear in your workspace, click Text Character formatting.
By default, you must specify whether to apply each modified text property to artistic text, to paragraph text, or to both.
To use the modified text style as the default for future documents, click Tools Save settings as default.
To make the style of an existing text frame or object the default style, click Window Dockers Graphic and text styles, and drag the text frame or object over either the Default artistic text icon or the Default paragraph text icon on the Graphic and text docker.
To change character properties Back to Top
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Select the text.
If the Character formatting docker does not appear in your workspace, click Text Character formatting.
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In the Character formatting docker, perform one or more tasks from the following table.

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Do the following
Change the font
Choose a font from the Font list box.
Change the font style
Choose a font style from the Font style list box.
Change the font size
Type a value for the font size in the Font size box.
Underline text
In the Character effects area, choose a style from the Underline list box.
Use strikethrough text
In the Character effects area, choose a style from the Strikethru list box.
Use overline text
In the Character effects area, choose a style from the Overline list box.
Capitalize text
In the Character effects area, choose Small CAPS or All CAPS from the Uppercase list box.
The Small CAPS option formats lowercase text as capital letters in a smaller font size. The All CAPS option formats all lowercase text as capital letters.
Use superscript or subscript
In the Character effects area, choose Superscript or Subscript from the Position box.

You can also change the font and font size from the property bar.
You can also change the formatting of selected text by clicking the Bold button , Italic button , or Underline button on the property bar.
To change the text color Back to Top
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Using the Text tool , select the text.
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Click a color on the color palette.
You can change the color of an entire text object by selecting it with the Pick tool and dragging a color swatch from the color palette to the text object.
To change the text case Back to Top
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Select the text.
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Click Text Change case.
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Enable one of the following options:
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Sentence case — capitalizes the initial letter of the first word in each sentence
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Lowercase — makes all text lowercase
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Uppercase — makes all text uppercase
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Title case — capitalizes the initial letter of each word
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Toggle case — changes all uppercase letters to lowercase, and all lowercase letters to uppercase
To resize text Back to Top

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Do the following
Increase the size of text
Press Num Lock to activate the number pad on your keyboard, and use the Text tool to select the text. Then, hold down Ctrl, and press 8 on the number pad.
The Num Lock light on your keyboard indicates whether the number pad is activated.
Decrease the size of text
Using the Text tool, select the text. Then, hold down Ctrl, and press 2 on the number pad.
Set an increment for resizing text
Click Tools Options. In the list of categories, click Text, and type a value in the Keyboard text increment box.
Change the default unit of measure
Click Tools Options. In the Workspace list of categories, click Text, and choose a unit from the Default text units list box.

To greek text Back to Top
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Click Tools Options.
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In the list of categories, click Workspace Text.
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Type a value in the Greek text below box.
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