Formatting characters

You can apply many formats to characters using the buttons on the Formatting toolbar. The Formatting toolbar is shown below as a floating toolbar, customized to show only the icons for character formatting.

Tip: It is highly recommended that you use character styles rather than manually formatting characters. For information on the advantages of styles and how to use them, see Chapter 6 (Introduction to Styles).

1 Open Styles and Formatting window	9 Subscript
2 Apply Style	10 Increase Font
3 Font Name	11 Reduce Font
4 Font Size	12 Font Color
5 Bold	13 Highlighting
6 Italic	14 Background Color
7 Underline	15 Open Character Format dialog
8 Superscript

The Formatting toolbar, showing icons for character formatting.

Tip: To remove manual formatting, select the text and click Format > Default Formatting or right-click and select Default Formatting from the pop-up menu.