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Composer Tutorial
Character Formats
Formatting your text and using color goes a
long way to making your Web pages or presentations unique and interesting.
Add images, horizontal lines, tables, and links and you start to
understand why the Web has attracted so much attention. These elements are
the stuff of the Web page.
Quick Links:
Formatting
An overview of format styles in Composer
Remember, there are two types of format
styles available to you in Composer:
- Paragraph formats: includes heading levels and
alignment options, and affects all paragraph in the selected block
of text.
- Character formats: includes font types, styles,
sizes, and colors.
The previous section discussed Paragraph formats.
This section discusses Character formats.
You can apply character styles to one or more
characters, within a paragraph, or spanning parts of multiple
paragraphs. The following character styles are currently supported in
the Composer and are available from Format|Character Properties,
the Character Properties dialog, and the toolbar:
- Bold
- Italic
- Fixed width
- Superscript
- Subscript
- Underline
Note: The JavaScript server and client
tags are also treated as special character styles. For more
information about applying JavaScript tags, see Using
JavaScript.
The Character
Properties dialog
About the Character Properties dialog
Lets you specify attributes such as size, color,
style, and JavaScript for the selected character(s).
Font Face - Choose the font you
wish to use.
Color - The color of the selected
character(s). You can select to use the document's default text color or
define a custom color.
Size - The point size of the selected
character(s). This determines how large or small the characters appear.
This box will be empty if the point size of the selected text varies.
You can type a point size in the box or select one from the drop-down
list. Default sets the size to that specified by the default paragraph
style.
Style - The style of the selected
character(s), such as italic, bold, or underline. You can also select to
apply a special style called blinking which causes text to blink on and
off. JavaScript Allows you to specify special JavaScript attributes for
the selected character(s).
Remove Style Settings - Resets any style
checkboxes you have marked to unselected.
Remove All Settings - Resets all settings
you have made in this dialog box to unselected or blank.
Click OK to make the specified changes and close
the dialog box. Click Apply to preview the changes you've specified and
then click Close to accept the changes and exit the dialog box.
Adding Color
Applying color to
selected text is a good
way to emphasize different parts of
your Web page.
- Select the text whose color you want to change
and click the Font Color button on the Format Tools toolbar. In
Windows, you can also right-click your mouse on the selected text to
display the Character Properties dialog and select Custom Color.
- In the Color dialog, select a color or select Other
to define your own custom color (below). You can specify
default text color in the Appearance panel of the Composer
Preferences dialog.
Adjusting Font Size
You can adjust font size by choosing Size from
the Format menu or using the font size pulldown menu on the Formatting
toolbar.
Inserting
horizontal lines
To insert a horizontal line:
- Click the spot in the edit window where you
want the line to appear.
- Click the Horizontal line toolbar button or
choose Insert|Horizontal Line. Right-click on the line and
choose Horizontal Line properties to specify alignment, width,
height, and whether to use 3-D shading.
Tip: Double-clicking non-text objects in
your document lets you modify their properties.
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