Provides basic controls for font, color, and alignment settings of the selected text, offers all commands of the Font Group, and adds the following:

• Grow Font: Increases text size.

• Shrink Font: Decreases text size.

• Edit Font: Displays the Font controls for font, effects and character spacing.

• Styles: Displays the Styles panel with default styles. Select All styles in the Show list at the bottom of the panel to display all available styles.

• Text Highlight Color: Represents the highlight color of the text selection. Click the arrow to view the color palette with theme colors and standard colors. Select a color, or click More Colors to open the Colors dialog box with advanced palettes and a color picker.

• Bullets: Applies a bullet to the current paragraph.

• Numbering: Applies a number to the current paragraph.

• Multilevel List: Displays the Bullets / Numbering dialog box, which offers templates for bulleted, numbered and multilevel lists and an editor to define new multilevel list templates.

• Decrease Indent: Decreases paragraph indent.

• Increase Indent: Increases paragraph indent.

Provides controls for alignment settings of the selected paragraphs.

• Paragraph: Displays the Paragraph dialog box with the following controls:

  • Alignment: Select from Left, Right, Centered, Justified or Distributed.

  • Outline Level: Select Body text or any numbered level to define the horizontal position of the paragraph in the multilevel list structure.

  • Left: Specify the left indent in the current measurement unit.

  • Right: Specify the right indent in the current measurement unit.

  • Special: Select the indentation style (None, First line, Hanging).

  • Value: Specify the degree of indentation regarding Special (see above) in the current measurement unit.

  • Before: Specify spacing before paragraph in the current measurement unit.

  • After: Specify spacing after paragraph in the current measurement unit.

  • Line Spacing: Select line spacing from the list of predefined values.

  • Value: Specify a rate to apply to line spacing. For example, 1.2 results in a line spacing 20% above the default.

  • Snap to grid when document grid is defined: Clear this to ignore document grid.

  • Text alignment: Select vertical alignment.

  • Tabs: Click Tabs to display the Tabs dialog box and define tab positions and alignments.

• Alignment: Click the arrow, then select from Left, Right, Centered, or Justified.

• Line Spacing: Click the arrow, then select line spacing from the list of predefined values.

• Distribution: Click to distribute the characters horizontally from margin to margin, counting with indentation.

• Borders and Shading: Click to display the Borders and Shading dialog box.

• Alignment: Click the arrow to view grid and guide options:

  • Ruler: Show or hide horizontal and vertical ruler bars around the Document Panel.

  • Alignment: Show or hide character baselines.

  • View Grid: Show or hide the grid.

  • Snap to Grid: Select to force objects to align with the grid.

• Columns: Click the arrow, then select the number of columns, or select More Columns to show the Columns dialog box and specify a custom width or spacing.

• Paper Size: Click the arrow, then select from a list of typical paper sizes, or select More Paper Sizes to show the Page Setup dialog box and specify page width and height.

• Text Direction: Click the arrow, then select from a list of most common text directions, or select Text Direction Options to show the Text Direction dialog box with preview.

Click Find & Replace to display the Find and Replace dialog box.

Click Close Advanced Editor to return to Review Mode. A confirmation dialog box appears with an option to finalize the content.