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The Character panel

Use the Character panel to format characters. If text is selected, changes you make in the Character panel affect only the selected text. If no text is selected, changes you make in the Character panel affect the selected text layers and the text layer’s selected Source Text keyframes, if any exist. If no text is selected and no text layers are selected, the changes you make in the Character panel become the new defaults for the next text entry.

  • To display the Character panel, choose Window > Character; or, with a type tool selected, click the panel button  in the Tools panel.
    To open the Character and Paragraph panels automatically when a type tool is active, select Auto-Open Panels in the Tools panel.
  • To reset Character panel values to the default values, choose Reset Character from the Character panel menu.