Use the settings in this panel for one-off adjustments to the in-line styling of selected text: Font, Size, Underline, Strikethrough, Position (Normal, Superscript, Subscript), Baseline, Case, Color, Tracking (word spacing), Enable Kerning, Leading (line spacing), Text Overprint and Non-breaking text.

Use character styles to apply consistent in-line styling to selected text. The character styles list shows all the styles inherited from the InDesign document. You can create new character styles or delete styles from the list.

Use the settings in this panel for one-off adjustments to the paragraph where the cursor is positioned, or to multiple selected paragraphs.

Indents with a bullet and then space between the bullet and the indented paragraph; this is the margin of the paragraph as shown in the Left Margin box.

Left, center, right, justify

Left to Right or Right to Left

Alignment with the document baseline guide (can be different than the alignment of the text frame)

Adds space before/after a paragraph.

Indents the first line of the paragraph

Space to the left and right of the paragraph

Use paragraph styles to apply consistent styling to paragraphs. The paragraph styles list shows all the styles inherited from the InDesign document. You can create new paragraph styles or delete styles from the list.

You can rename your style.

Choose a style from the drop-down list to apply after the current style.

Select this check box if you don’t want your changes to apply to existing frames.

Specify the paragraph settings.

Specify the indentation.

Specify the character settings for this paragraph style. For example, set the font, font size, color and leading (line spacing) for this paragraph style.

These are general settings that apply to all the text in the text frame.

Fills the frame with Lorem Ipsum text.

Inserts hyphenation to flow words to the next line; the rules of the selected Text Language are used for the hyphenation.

The language for hyphenation

Vertical alignment of text is possible in all shapes.

Creates an outline of the font of your text. Select the check box and you can set the Weight and the Color of the outline. Use together with the text color to obtain creative effects.

Select to automatically resize a frame to accommodate the text. When enabled, you can specify the Direction of the expansion and how much.

This option is for inserting in-line frames in a paragraph, to ensure the frame flows with the text. See “Insert an in-line frame in a text frame”. You can choose the following frames in the drop-down list:

Use the Glyphs panel to insert special characters and symbols in text.

A frame can have its own baseline grid that overrides the general document baseline. You need to be in Edit Frame mode to see the settings in this panel. See “Use a custom baseline grid” for the procedure.

Selecting this check box overrides the document baseline grid so you can set your custom line spacing.

Select from where you want the custom baseline grid to be applied:

The distance from the top of the object you selected in the Start drop-down list.

The line spacing value.

Select this check box to display the grid lines.

Here you can set the document level grid which can be selected in the Paragraph Settings. The parameters are the same as for the Frame Custom Baseline Grid.