Underline or strike through text, Apply all caps and small caps, Change capitalization styles – Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual
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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Type
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Underline or strike through text
1
Select the type you want to underline or strike through. If you don’t select any text, the setting applies to new text
you create.
2
Do one of the following:
•
To underline type, click the Underline button
in the Character panel.
•
To strike through type, click the Strikethrough button
in the Character panel.
The default weight of an underline and strikethrough depends on the size of the type.
Apply all caps and small caps
When you format text as small caps, Illustrator automatically uses the small-cap characters designed as part of the font,
if available. Otherwise, Illustrator synthesizes the small caps using scaled-down versions of the regular capital letters.
Regular capital letters (top) compared to small-cap letters (bottom)
1
Select the characters or type objects you want to change. If you don’t select any text, the setting applies to new text
you create.
2
Choose All Caps or Small Caps from the Character panel menu.
To specify the size for synthesized small caps, choose File
> Document Setup. For Small Caps, type a percentage of the
original font size for text to be formatted as small caps. (The default value is 70%.)
To change the capitalization style of text to uppercase, lowercase, title case, or sentence case, use the Type > Change
Case command.
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Change capitalization styles
1
Select the characters or type objects you want to change.
2
Choose one of the following in the Type > Change Case submenu:
UPPERCASE
to change all characters to uppercase.
Note: The UPPERCASE command causes discretionary ligatures to revert to normal text. This also occurs with the Title
Case and Sentence Case commands when a discretionary ligature appears at the beginning of a word.
lowercase
to change all characters to lowercase.