Using The Character Panel; About Fonts - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

Position the insertion point inside the text flow, and do one of the following:
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Drag to select one or more characters.
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Click, move the insertion point, and then Shift-click to select a range of characters.
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Choose Edit > Select All to select all of the characters in the layer.
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Double-click a word to select it. Triple-click a line to select it. Click four times in a paragraph to select it. Click five
times anywhere in the text flow to select all characters in a bounding box.
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To use the arrow keys to select characters, hold down Shift and press the Right Arrow or Left Arrow key. To use
the arrow keys to select words, hold down Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (Mac OS) and press the
Right Arrow or Left Arrow key.
Note: In After Effects, selecting and formatting characters in a text layer puts the type tool into editing mode.

Using the Character panel

The Character panel provides options for formatting characters. If text is highlighted, changes you make in the
Character panel affect only the highlighted text. If no text is highlighted, changes you make in the Character panel
affect the selected text layers and the text layer's selected Source Text keyframes, if any exist. If no text is highlighted
and no text layers are selected, the changes you make in the Character panel become the new defaults for the next
text entry.
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To display the Character panel, choose Window > Character, click the Character panel tab if the panel is visible
but not active, or, with a type tool selected, click the panel button
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To change values in the Character panel and update text in real time, drag an underlined value in the panel.
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To reset Character panel values to the default values, choose Reset Character from the Character panel menu.
See also
"To animate the source text" on page 296

About fonts

A font is a complete set of characters—letters, numbers, and symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style.
In addition to the fonts installed on your system, After Effects uses font files in this local folder:
Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts
Windows
Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts
Mac OS X
If you install a Type 1, TrueType, OpenType
cations only.
, or CID font into the local Fonts folder, the font appears in Adobe appli-
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in the Tools panel.
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