5.1 Text Formatting Options

When it comes to creating a document, be it a word processing document or a web 

page, formatting text seems to be the most important need, aside from the content 

itself.  So we begin this chapter about formatting, with a section devoted to formatting 

the text.

If you have experience formatting content in word processing, spreadsheet, or presen 

tation programs, then you'll find that Dreamweaver MX's formatting options work 

very similarly.  Additionally, if you have used other programs, you'll know that there 

is never just one way to do a particular action, and Dreamweaver MX isn't any differ 

ent.  This section gives a brief introduction to the three programatic locations to select 

text formatting options, aside from typing the HTML yourself.

Formatting tools

The Properties panel is often the most convenient formatting tool because it combines 

the most popular formatting options into a panel that is often located beneath the 

design area.  The image below also displays the Text menu and the shortcut/contex 

tual menu that is available when you right click (Win) or Control click (Mac) any 

where in the design area.

Figure 5 1 Three formatting methods

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