Paragraph and Character Palette in InDesign

The Paragraph and Character palettes are used to modify basic properties of text.

Changes on the Character palette are reflected in selected text. Changes on the Paragraph palette are reflected in every paragraph that at least has the cursor or some highlighted text.

If you have a text box Select with the arrow tool, then character and paragraph changes apply to the entire text box.

Contents of the Paragraph palette

• Alignment
• Left
• Center
• Right
• Left Justify
• Center Justify
• Right Justify
• Full Justify
• Left Indent
• Right Indent
• First Line Left Indent
• Align to the baseline grid (key-lining) On /Off
• Space Before Paragraphs
• Space After Paragraphs
• Drop Cap Number of Lines
• Drop Cap Number of Letters
• Hyphenation On/Off

Contents of the Character palette

• Font Family
• Font Style
• Font Size
• Leading
• Kerning
• Tracking
• Vertical Scale
• Horizontal Scale
• Baseline Shift
• Skew
• Language