You can apply attributes to text to change its appearance and formatting. Attributes can be applied to characters or paragraphs with the Edit palette and commands in the Type menu. Attributes are divided into character and paragraph attributes because some attributes affect only paragraphs as a whole.
You can apply attributes to text with the Type menu commands, Edit and style palette and Eyedropper tool.
The Type menu has commands for all text attributes. The Edit palette provides more convenient access to the most common attributes. The Eyedropper tool allows you to copy text attributes between paragraphs. Styles also help you maintain uniform formatting in your documents and styled text can be globally reformatted simply by editing the styles.
The Eyedropper tool picks up attributes from one location and pastes them in another. You can paste the copied attributes as many times as you want, and you can pick up new attributes at any time.
1. Choose the Eyedropper tool from the toolbox.
The mouse pointer will change to an empty eyedropper shape.
2. Copy the text attributes.
Click on the text whose attributes you want to pick up. The mouse pointer will change to a full eyedropper shape.
3. Paste the text attributes.
Click anywhere on a paragraph to format. All of the copied paragraph and character attributes will be applied to this paragraph.
4. Continue as desired.
Continue clicking on paragraphs to paste the same attributes. To copy different attributes, hold down Option (Alt or Shift) and click on the text whose attributes you want to pick up. When Option (Alt or Shift) is held down, the mouse pointer will change to any empty eyedropper shape.
The easiest way to apply attributes is to choose them from the Edit palette. To display the Edit palette, choose Show Edit Palette from the Window menu.
When you enter a value in a text box in the Edit palette, press Tab to move to the next text box without applying the change immediately. Click the Apply button to apply the changes, or press Return. (AmigaOS users must press Return twiceonce to exit the text box and once to apply the changes.)
A Click to apply changes, or press Return.
B Click to display the Paragraph view.
C Font pop-up menu
D Type style buttons: Plain, Bold, Italic, Underline, Outline, Reverse,
Shadow, Small Caps, Superscript and Subscript.
E Type size: Choose a preset size from the pop-up menu or enter a size.
F Tracking: Choose a track preset from the pop-up menu and enter a track
amount.
G Character view button.
H Character style pop-up menu.
I Type Width: Choose a preset size from the pop-up menu or enter a width.
J Leading: Choose a method from the pop-up menu and enter a leading amount.
A Click to apply changes, or press Return.
B Paragraph view button.
C Alignment options: Left, Right, Center, Justified.
D First line indent.
E Left paragraph indent.
F Space before: Choose a method from the pop-up menu and enter an amount
G Click to display the Character view.
H Paragraph style pop-up menu.
I Right paragraph indent.
J Space after: choose a method from the pop-up menu and enter an amount.