If you’re familiar with Adobe Illustrator, InDesign’s Tools palette should look very familiar. However, you may wonder about that tiny “T” just under the Fill and Stroke icons. That button changes formatting from affecting the container (XPress users think “box”) to changing the text.
Figure 1
First select the text frame with either of the Selection tools. Then click the Text Formatting icon. A large T in the Fill or Stroke area indicates you can change the text attributes. Any changes you make to the character or paragraph attributes will be applied to all the text in the text frame. You can also change the color of the text by choosing a new color in the Color, Gradient, or Swatches palettes.
Figure 2
Note: The Text Formatting icon is disabled if you select a text frame that is linked to another frame.
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This article was last modified on March 10, 2025
This article was first published on February 27, 2002
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