Using the Character Palette

Character formatting refers to attributes that can be applied to a single character or glyph in a paragraph without applying that formatting to the entire paragraph. The Character palette controls character attributes.

Tip

As you work with text frames, the Control palette changes to display many of the text controls found in the Character palette. This makes it possible to style text using just the Control palette. See "Using the Control Palette for Text" at the end of this chapter for how to use the Control palette to style text.

To work with the Character palette:

1.	If the Character palette is not visible, choose Window > Type & Tables > Character or Type > Character. This opens the Character palette . The Character palette lets you change the character attributes. or Click the Character palette tab to move it to the front of a set of nested palettes.
2.	Click the palette tab to reveal all the palette options. or Choose Show Options from the Character palette menu . The Character palette menu contains additional controls for formatting text. Tip The Character palette menu also contains additional controls for formatting text.

Setting the Text Defaults

When you first open InDesign, text frames are set with the fonts that the Adobe folks thought you'd like to work with. You don't have to live with those settings.

Deselect all objects and change the text settings to whatever you like. Those settings will become the defaults for that document. You can also set the defaults for all new documents by changing the settings with no document open.