About formatting text

Properties that you can apply to text include:

• Font and font size.
• Text formatting effects, which include italics, underline, bold, or strikethrough.

• Properties that increase or decrease the space between characters to expand or condense your text.

• Properties that raise or lower text from the other text on a line; for example, to mark a word with a copyright symbol or to indicate a footnote. You can also specify the number of points to raise or lower text.

• Highlighting a word or an individual letter.

A paragraph is a block of text that is separated from another by a paragraph mark . If lines of text are separated by line breaks , the text is considered to be one paragraph. The paragraph marks and the line breaks are hidden characters that can be displayed if needed.

Properties that you can apply to entire paragraphs include:

• Spacing between lines in a paragraph.

• Borders around text.

• Line and paragraph indentation.
• Numbered, bulleted, or multi-level lists.

• Shading to an entire line or paragraph.