Caption Text Formatting (Style Editor dialog box)
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Use this dialog to format the text in field captions.
To display this dialog box, right click a style in the Internal
style sheet panel, select Edit Style, and then select Caption Text
Formatting from the list on the left.
- Inherit Properties From
- Specifies the style from which to inherit formatting properties.
Lists the available styles for the same object type or the Common Style
type. Do Not Inherit is the default option. When you select this
option, you can still override individual formatting properties.
When you save the style, only those overrides which differ from
the referenced style are preserved.
- Font and Font Size
- Sets the typeface and typeface size.
- Style
- Sets the typeface style.
- Baseline Shift
- Sets the amount of space to move a character (or group of characters)
up or down relative to the baseline. Positive numbers shift characters up,
and negative numbers shift characters down.
- Letter Spacing
- Sets the amount of space to leave between the letters in
a word or between a group of words.
- Vertical Scale
- Sets the degree (percentage) by which to increase or decrease the
vertical size of text.
- Horizontal Scale
- Sets the degree (percentage) by which to increase or decrease the
horizontal size of text.
- Auto Kern
- Reduces the amount of space between letters within a word
or group of words.
- Alignment
- Sets horizontal and vertical alignment.
- Align Left
- Left -aligns the caption or value.
- Align Center
- Center-aligns the caption or value.
- Align Right
- Right-aligns the caption or value.
- Justify
- Justifies the caption or value. Full justification is applied
to all of the lines except the last line in a multiple-line caption
or value (single-line paragraphs cannot be justified).
- Align Top
- Aligns to the top of the area reserved for the caption and
value.
- Align Middle
- Aligns to the middle of the area reserved for the caption
and value.
- Align Bottom
- Aligns to the bottom of the area reserved for the caption
and value.
- Indents
- Sets the indentation of the paragraph.
- Left
- Sets the left indention.
- Right
- Sets the right indentation.
- First
- Sets the first line indentation. None indents all lines by
the same amount. First line indents the first line only. Hanging
indents all line except the first.
- By
- Sets the amount of the first line or hanging indentation.
- Spacing
- Sets the amount of space above and below the paragraph.
- Above
- Sets the amount of vertical space above the paragraph.
- Below
- Sets the amount of vertical space below the paragraph.
- Line Spacing
- Sets the amount of space between lines. Single makes the
line height equivalent to the height of the tallest character in
the line. 1.5 Lines makes the line height one and a half times the
height of the tallest character in the line. Double Line makes the
line height twice the height of the tallest character in the line.
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