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Dressing Up Text with Character Properties

Paragraph properties always apply to a whole paragraph; for example, you cannot make part of a paragraph a heading and another part normal text.

However, you can apply character properties to a single character in a paragraph, a few words, a whole paragraph, or a whole document.

Character properties are optional settings you apply to text to change its appearance, such as a particular font (typeface) or bold formatting.

Paragraph properties (such as alignment and indenting) and character properties (such as font or boldfacing) generally work together to define the look of a paragraph and the text within ...