You can apply text formatting to all styles that contain text using the tools on the Style Editor-Text/Paragraph toolbar.
Depending on the type of style you are formatting, text settings may affect the entire web page, an entire paragraph, or a text selection. In addition, you can use text settings to control the text for elements within a style, such as table headers, cells, and captions, and the text for the individual levels in a bulleted or numbered list.
When creating a style for text, you should think about the scope of the text that is affected by the style. For example, you want to create a style that italicizes text. You would create a Paragraph style if you wanted to italicize all of the text in the entire paragraph, or you would create a Text style if you wanted to italicize selected characters or words only. You would probably not want to apply italics to the document body style as that would affect all of the text in the entire web page.
Set Text Fonts
The following options control the fonts for a style or style element:
Font Family: The Font Family list includes a group of predefined font families followed by all system fonts installed on the local computer.
A font family is a set of multiple fonts with similar characteristics, grouped together. For instance, Arial and Helvetica are grouped in the same font family because they are both sans serif fonts. Times New Roman and Times are grouped because they are serif fonts, and Courier New and Courier are grouped because they are monospace fonts. Font families may also be prioritized. Prioritized fonts are known as font stacks. A web browser can only apply fonts that exist on the local system. If the first font in a font family is not available, the browser goes through the fonts in the family until it finds one that is installed.
If you know a font is available on the machines where the content is viewed, simply select it from the list; for example, if your organization has Arial installed, by default, on all machines. However, where you are not sure what fonts are installed, it is preferable to select a font family. This helps ensure the content displays properly.
Font Size: Sets the font size for the style text. You can enter a numeric value or choose from the list of predefined font sizes (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 32, 36, 48, 72) or font size keywords; xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large, and Inherit. The Inherit option results in a font size inherited from the document body style.
Note: The size of the keywords are based on font sizes that are scaled to approximately 1.2 of the medium size as interpreted by the browser. Also note that the keyword sizes for fonts in a document (print) output are not identical to the browser sizes. Microsoft Word uses a slightly different interpretation when scaling keywords.
Font Unit: Unit associated with the value in the Font Size field. You can choose points (the default) or pixels.
Set Character Format
The character format icons are typically used in text styles for applying a format to a selection only, such as characters and words in paragraphs, headings, table cells, and bulleted and numbered lists.
Bold: Bolds the selected text.
Italic: Italicizes the selected text.
Underline: Underlines the selected text. If the selected text includes multiple words, the space between the words is also underlined.
Strikethrough: Applies strikethrough to the selected text. If the selected text includes multiple words, the space between the words is also struck through.
Bold: Bolds the selected text.
Italic: Italicizes the selected text.
Underline: Underlines the selected text. If the selected text includes multiple words, the space between the words is also underlined.
Strikethrough: Applies strikethrough to the selected text. If the selected text includes multiple words, the space between the words is also struck through.