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Change the default unit of measure

Click Tools Options. In the Workspace list of categories, click Text,

and choose a unit from the Default text units list box.

You can also resize the text from the Character area of the Object properties docker, by choosing a size from the Font size list box.

Formatting characters

You can change the position and appearance of characters by displaying them as subscript or superscript, which is useful in drawings with

scientific notations. If you select an OpenType font that supports subscript and superscript, you can apply the OpenType feature. However,

if you select a font, including an OpenType font, that does not support subscript and superscript, you can apply a synthesized version of the

character, which CorelDRAW produces by altering the characteristics of the default font character. For more information, see “Working with

OpenType features” on page 415.

Artistic text with superscript (1) and subscript (2) applied

You can also add underlines, strikethrough lines, and overlines to selected characters.

Artist text with underline (1), strikethrough (2), and overline (3) applied to the text using both single and double line styles.

If you want to reuse the formatting of selected text, you can use styles or copy the text attributes and apply them to another text selection.

For more information, see “Working with styles and style sets ” on page 479 and “Copying object properties, transformations, and

effects” on page 218.

You can modify the behavior of the text cursor that displays onscreen and enable text highlighting, which is useful when formatting text.

To insert superscript or subscript text

Using the Text tool , select a character or a block of text.