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3 Choose your font

Select your body text and click the ‘Arial’ dropdown menu

on the toolbar to select your primary font. Click ‘More fonts...’ to

browse for additional fonts. Websites like http://www.canva.com/learn/

combining-fonts-10-must-know-tips-from-a-designer provide

advice on choosing fonts. Next, change the text size, attributes

and colour for your body text, if applicable.

4 Set text alignment and spacing

Use the alignment controls to change the text alignment

• typically left or justified for body copy (click the More ‘...’
  button if they’re not visible). Once done, click the line spacing
  tool to the right of the alignment controls to set the distance
  between lines – four basic options are available: single, 1.15,
  1.5 and double.

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Style

Pre-defined

formatting for text.

Styles include the

font (plus its

colour, size and

attributes) as well

as text alignment

andspacing.

Attribute

Additional styling

instructions for fonts,

from underline, bold

and italic to

strikethrough,

super-script and

sub-script.

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Text aligned along

both left and right

margins of a column,

spaced evenly

between them.

CREATING STYLES

First, style up the

text as you want it

to appear, then click

the Styles button

and choose ‘Update

[style] to match’.

TEXT ATTRIBUTES
You’ll find more text
attributes – super-
script, strikethrough
and sub-script

• on the ‘Format

  
  

  Text’ menu.

  
  

  
  

ALIGN TEXT

For most people,

aligning text left or

justified is sufficient,

but centred and

right-aligned text is

also supported.

LINE SPACING

Adjust the spacing

between lines (and

paragraphs) from

here – it will give

your text room

to breathe.

CUSTOM STYLES

Install the free

Paragraph Styles+

add-on and you

can add additional

Styles should

you want them.

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