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You may format individual text elements or style entire strings of text in Document Composer. The formatting options are available from the Formatting toolbar.
You may format individual pieces of text by using the Bold, Italic, Underline, Superscript, and Font Style options. If the entire text element is selected, Font Style and Alignment options are available.
Note: These text formatting options are only available in Document Composer when PDF is set as the Compound document output format.
You may apply various formatting and style options to words and individual text characters within the text element.
Select Text from the Insert menu.
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Select the text button from the Components toolbar.
The cursor changes into a crosshair.
Note: Line breaks can be set by using the Enter key when typing text in a text element.
The Formatting toolbar is activated.
Note: You can also access the formatting options from the context menu, as shown in the following image.
Tip: You may also access the Font Style dialog box from the Font ellipsis button of the Styling Font field in the Properties window.
The font options are applied to the text selected.
To insert a bulleted list or numbered list into a text element:
The context menu opens.
For example, the following image shows each item of text on a different line with a bullet next to it.
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To insert a nested list into a text element:
A list is started within the current list, allowing you to enter text on that list level, as shown in the following image.
Note: Pressing the Tab key while your cursor is on the same line as a list item will move that item one level down, resulting in a nested list. The bullet or number type selected is the next list type in the context menu. For example, if you have a bulleted list that uses the disc bullet type, pressing tab to move an item down one level will cause that nested list to have the circle bullet type.
You can continue to nest lists within other lists by using the same steps shown above.
Note: You cannot skip a list level. For example, in order to insert a nested bulleted list or nested numbered list on a lower level, there must be a list one level up from it.
You may apply formatting and style options to the entire text element in Document Composer.
Note: Any formatting and styling that you may have applied to individual text strings within the text element will remain unchanged. Changes made to the entire text element are only applied to the part of the text string that has not been formatted.
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Select the text element from the Properties window drop-down list, which appears as text(n).
The Font dialog box opens.
Note: The default font is Trebuchet MS 10pt.
The font options are applied to the text element.
You may apply alignment options to the text within the text element.
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Select the text element from the Properties window drop-down list, which appears as text(n).
The Alignment options on the Formatting toolbar are activated.
Note: The default is set to Align Left.
The alignment format is applied to the text element.
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