Change text appearance

You can set the appearance of fonts before you create text by setting defaults in advance or you can change the appearance of fonts after you create them. For information about setting font defaults, see Set font defaults.

The text justification attribute settings are important for text objects showing dynamic values. The justification determines how fields of varying length appear at run time.

For example, if you are showing a numeric value at the end of a text string that is centered or is right justified, the entire text string, including the value, is centered or justified each time there is a change in the number of digits shown.

Using the menu commands or the buttons, you can configure text in several ways.

To configure the text appearance

1. Select the text object.

2. On the Draw menu, in the Format group, select the appropriate text command.