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Creating a new character style

This section illustrates the use of the style dialog box for creating a new character

style.

The pages used to configure the character style have already been seen in the

previous section on paragraph styles. Therefore, once you are familiar with creating

paragraph styles, it will only take a few minutes to create a character style.

• Use the Organizer to set up the hierarchical level of the new character style (if

needed) and to give it a name.

• Use the Font page to determine the font, typeface, and size for your character

style. As with paragraph styles, you can specify the size as a percentage rather

than providing the absolute value. For example, 150% means that when the

character style is applied to a 10pt font size, the new font size will be 15pt,

while if applied to a 14pt font size, the new size will be 21pt. You can also

specify the Language of the text to which a certain character style is applied,

so you can insert words in a different language and have them spell checked

using the correct dictionary.

• In the Font Effects page, you can set up attributes such as font color,

underlining, relief, or other effects. If you frequently use hidden text, for

example, it is very convenient to define a character style where the Hidden

option is marked. This way you only need a few mouse clicks to hide text.

Relief effects may be appropriate for a drop cap or to give more emphasis to

the chapter number or other parts of the title (as it is the case of this guide).

• You can use the Position page to create a subscript in case you are not

satisfied with the default one or even a sub-subscript which may be useful for

certain scientific publications. In the same page, you can create rotated,

condensed, or expanded text.

Note

When rotating a group of characters, you also need to specify whether

the rotated text should fit in the line or if, instead, it is allowed to

expand above and below the line. This property only becomes active for

character styles.

• Finish creating a character style by assigning a background, if so desired.

Applying a background to a character style yields the same effect as using the

highlighting tool on the standard toolbar.

Migrating to character styles

For people accustomed to formatting text manually, character styles can take some

getting used to. Here are some suggestions for making the transition easier:

• Never mix character styles and manual formatting. Manual formatting

supersedes character styles. If you combine them, you may end up wasting

hours in frustration trying to figure out why your character styles don’t work.

• Right-clicking and choosing Default Formatting removes any text formatting

(both manual and character styles).

• Realize that clicking the Bold icon in the toolbar is not easier than double-

clicking on a character style that is preset for bolding the font typeface.

• Leave the Styles and Formatting window open to make character styles easy to

access.

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