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Select the text that you wish to apply the desired formatting to. 3
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.
Aligning characters on a line
The Character Alignment feature gives you several options for aligning small
characters in a line of text to the largest character in a line of text. You can align
characters based on their baselines, their em boxes, or their ICF boxes.
Em boxes are the bounding boxes of characters. The ideographic character face
(ICF) box is a boundary inside the em box beyond which a glyph cannot extend.
ICF boxes are necessary to ensure that glyphs in an East Asian text flow do not
touch each other. The red area in the diagram below represents the boundaries
of the em box. The yellow area represents the ICF box.
Red represents the em box. Yellow represents the ICF box.
You can align smaller characters with the largest characters that appear in the
same line of text in one of following ways:
Choose an option from the Style > Character Alignment submenu. ●
Choose an option from the Char Align drop-down menu on the Paragraph tab ●
of the Measurements palette.
The alignment options are: