Caption Text Formatting (Style Editor dialog box)

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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