Summary

As a user of InDesign, modifying the appearance of type is one of the more common tasks you'll perform. InDesign lets you modify the appearance of highlighted characters or selected paragraphs. When text is highlighted, you can use the controls in the Character pane or Control palette to change any of several character attributes: font family, size , typestyle, leading, kerning, tracking, vertical and horizontal scale, baseline shift, and skew. You can also set the hyphenation and spell-checking language, apply all caps or small caps, superscripts or subscripts, underline, strikethrough , ligatures, and OpenType variations. You also set line spacing (leading), something normally applied to entire paragraphs rather than InDesign's approach of applying it to selected text.