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Format painter
Format Painter allows you to copy formatting that is applied to one piece of text and
apply it to others. The Format Painter will copy and apply all formatting that has been
applied to that text including any applied style sheets (paragraph and character).
To use the Format Painter:
1
Select the text with the desired formatting.
2
Select the Format Painter in the Home/Classic or Character/Character Attributes
tab of the Measurements palette.
3
Select the text that you wish to apply the desired formatting to.
IMPORTANT: Whether format painter applies only character formatting in addition
to paragraph formatting is determined by the original selection; if you select a few
characters, then only character formatting is applied, if you select several lines,
paragraph formatting is also applied. Style sheets are never applied using the Format
Painter.
Controlling kerning
Kerning is the adjustment of space between character pairs. Because of their shapes,
certain character pairs look better when kerned. You can use automatic kerning, and
you can also use manual kerning controls to specify additional kerning between
characters.
Kerning values are expressed as 1/200 of an em space. A positive kerning value increases
the amount of space between characters; a negative value decreases it.
Kerning manually
To apply kerning between two characters, do one of the following things:
• (Windows only) : Choose Style > Kern and enter a value in the Kern Amount field.
Click OK.
• Use the Kern Amount controls in the Measurements palette.
• Use one of the keyboard commands below.
Mac OS X
• Decrease 1/20-em: Command+Shift+{
• Increase 1/20-em: Command+Shift+}
• Decrease 1/200-em: Command+Option+Shift+{
• Increase 1/200-em: Command+Option+Shift+}
Windows
• Decrease 1/20-em: Ctrl+Shift+{
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