16.5. Applying Character Formatting

The Options bar gives you easy access to the collection of formatting controls shown in Figure 16.8. The Character palette and its palette menu, also shown in the figure, offer some of these same controls plus a few additional options. If you use Adobe InDesign, the palette should look familiar to you — with a few exceptions, it's a virtual twin of the InDesign Character palette.

To open the palette and its partner, the Paragraph palette, click the Toggle the Character and Paragraph Palettes button in the Options bar. Alternatively, you can choose Window Character or press Ctrl+T (+T on the Mac) when in text-editing mode.