Text dialog box (Font tab)

This tab specifies font and style characteristics for selected text or for the selected shape's entire text block.

Font settings

Asian text options are available only when the system is set to an Asian system locale.

Font text / Latin text

Displays a list of all the TrueType, OpenType®, and TrueType Collection fonts installed on your computer and in Microsoft Windows. To change a font, select from the list.

Note The Font option appears as Latin text when Asian text or Complex scripts (or both) are enabled on the system.

Asian text

Displays a list of all the enabled fonts installed on your computer and in Microsoft Windows that support Asian languages. To change a font, select from the list. The font will be used for all Asian characters in the text; the selected Latin font will be used for characters from Latin languages. To set all text in the Asian font, set the Latin font to the same font as the Asian font.

Style

Specifies the style that is applied to text you type, or to selected text (Regular, Italic, Bold, or Bold Italic).

Size

Sets the point size of selected text. A point is a traditional measure used by typesetters and is equal to 1/72 of an inch.

Complex scripts

Complex scripts options are available only when the system is set to a complex system locale.

Font

Displays a list of all the fonts installed on your computer that support complex scripts. To change a font, select from the list. The font will be used for characters in a complex language. Other characters will be set in the selected Latin font.

Style

Specifies the style that is applied to complex language text you type, or to selected text (Regular, Italic, Bold, or Bold Italic).

Size

Sets the point size of selected text. The percentage is based on the Size setting for Latin and Asian text.

General

Case

Specifies the case formatting for text.

• Normal Displays text the way you type it—uppercase, lowercase, or a mixture of characters.

• All Caps Displays all text characters as uppercase, regardless of how you type them.

• Initial Caps Displays the first character of every word as an uppercase letter and all other characters lowercase, regardless of how you type them.

• Small Caps Displays all lowercase characters as small capital letters (smaller than the specified point size), leaving uppercase characters full size.

Position

Specifies the text position.

• Normal Aligns selected text horizontally on the baseline.

• Superscript Raises selected text slightly above the baseline and reduces its point size.

• Subscript Drops selected text slightly below the baseline and reduces its point size.

Underline

Draws a line under selected text.

• (none) Removes any underline from selected text.

• Single Draws a single line under selected text.

• Double Draws a double line under selected text.

  Note: For Japanese or Korean vertical text, underline formatting is positioned to the right of the text.

Strikethrough

Draws a line through the center of the text.

• (none) Removes any strikethrough from selected text.

• Single Draws a single line through selected text.

• Double Draws a double line through selected text.

Color

Sets text color.

To assign a custom color, click More Colors. In the Colors dialog box, define the new color.

Language

Specifies the language setting. After you select a language (such as French), when you click the Spelling command, the appropriate dictionary (such as the French dictionary) is used to check the spelling of text. The language is automatically based on the input locale used to enter the text. The specified language affects text placement for complex script text and Asian text.

Transparency

Specifies how opaque or transparent the text is. Zero percent is completely opaque, and 100 percent is completely transparent.