Character Styles

A character style is a collection of character formatting attributes that can be applied to text in a single step.

Access Character Styles

Click on the Designer then Styles menu option as shown below.

In the Styles screen, you can view Paragraph or Character styles types. You can also view styles that have been archived.

A character style is a collection of character formatting attributes that can be applied to text in a single step while a paragraph style includes both character and paragraph formatting attributes, and can be applied to a paragraph or range of paragraphs.

Create Character Styles

Navigate to the "Styles" view, as described in the menu location above. Once the page loads, click the Create then Character Style option.

A Create CharacterStyle dialog window will appear prompting you to input the character style details. Click the Create button to complete .

Name	Description
Name	The name of the font in the character style.
Font Family	The name of the font family in the character style.
Font Style	The type of style applied to the font in the character style.
Color	The color applied to the font in the character style.
Text Size	Size of the text in the character style.
Underline	Select "True" to underline the text in the character style.
Strikethrough	Select "True" to apply a strikethrough to the font.
Position	Options available are: Normal Superscript Subscript
Baseline Shift	The value which would move the character up or down relative to the baseline of the surrounding text in the character style.
Horizontal Scale	The value which would change the horizontal size of the selected text in the character style.
Vertical Scale	The value which would change the vertical size of the selected text.
Case	The case of text (Normal, All Caps, Small Caps).