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Formatting characters

About character formatting
You can set type attributes before you enter characters or reset them to change the appearance of selected characters
in a type layer.
Before you can format individual characters, you must select them. You can select one character, a range of
characters, or all characters in a type layer.
See also
"Line and character spacing" on page 419
"Formatting paragraphs" on page 422
Select characters
1 Select the Horizontal Type tool
Select the type layer in the Layers palette, or click in the text to automatically select a type layer.
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Position the insertion point in the text, and do one of the following:
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• Drag to select one or more characters.
• Click in the text, and then Shift-click to select a range of characters.
• Choose Select > All to select all the characters in the layer.
• Double-click a word to select it. Triple-click a line to select it. Quadruple-click a paragraph to select it. Quintuple-
click anywhere in the text flow to select all characters in a bounding box.
• To use the arrow keys to select characters, click in the text, and then hold down Shift and press the Right Arrow
or Left Arrow key. To use the keys to select words, hold down Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (Mac OS)
and press the Right Arrow or Left Arrow key.
To select all the characters in a layer without positioning the insertion point in the text flow, select the type layer
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in the Layers palette, and then double-click the layer's type icon.
Important: Selecting and formatting characters in a type layer puts the Type tool into edit mode.
Character palette overview
The Character palette provides options for formatting characters. Some formatting options are also available from
the options bar.
You can display the Character palette by doing one of the following:
• Choose Window > Character, or click the Character palette tab if the palette is visible but not active.
• With a type tool selected, click the Palette button
To set an option in the Character palette, choose a value from the pop-up menu on the right side of the option. For
options with numeric values, you can also use the up and down arrows to set the value, or you can edit the value
directly in the text box. When you edit a value directly, press Enter or Return to apply a value, Shift+Enter or
Shift+Return to apply a value and then highlight the value just edited, or Tab to apply a value and move to the next
text box in the palette.
or the Vertical Type tool
in the options bar.
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