CHAPTER 28 FORMATTING TEXT You can control all aspects of text formatting in Canvas. This chapter explains how to specify font, font styles, type size, character position and scaling, kerning, letter and word spacing, paragraph alignment and spacing, and hyphenation. This chapter also explains how to select text for formatting and how to apply format settings. You can also save format settings as named character and paragraph styles so you can use them again. Selecting text and objects The following section is a review of some basic selection techniques used to format text. To select and deselect text objects You can select text objects the same way you select other objects in Canvas. •   To select a single object, use a Selection tool to click the text object or drag a selection rectangle around the object. •   To select multiple objects, hold down the shift key and click text objects with a Selection tool. You can also drag a selec- tion rectangle around all the objects you want to select. •   To deselect an object, press the Shift key and click the object. Other objects remain selected. •   To deselect all objects, press the Enter key (Mac) or Esc key (Windows) twice, or click an area of the screen where there are no objects. To select all text objects To select all text objects with a single command, select the Text tool in the Toolbox and then choose Edit > Select All. •   In an Illustration document, this procedure selects all text objects on the current layer. •   In a Publication document, this procedure selects all text objects on the current page or current two-page spread. •   In an Animation document, this procedure selects all text objects on the current layer of the current frame.
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