ChemDraw User's Manual - CambridgeSoft

• Subscript—Reduces the text by about25 percent and lowers the baseline.• Formula—Formats in a way that is appropriatefor most chemical formulas, that is,numbers are automatically subscripted. Youmust, however, captitalize manually.You can apply several styles to the same selectedcaption. You can also apply multiple styles todifferent portions of a single caption.If the captions you select have more than one style,when you select the text with the Lasso or Marqueetool and select Style from the Text menu, a hyphenappears next to each style (other than Plain) that isapplied to a portion of the selection. A check markappears next to each style that applies to all of theselected text. Choosing a style other than “Plain”adds the new style to all of the selected captions.Previously applied styles are not affected—that is,for example, if you select Italic for a section that isBold, it will be Bold Italic.Specifying Line SpacingYou can specify the three types of line spacing:• Automatic—Consistently spaced lines of textbased on the height of the tallest character inthe entire caption. This is the default linespacing.• Variable—Lines of text with different spacingbased on the tallest character and the lowestdescender in each line.• Fixed—Consistently spaced lines using aspacing that you specify.To open the object settings dialog box, do thefollowing:1. Select a caption or atom label with the Lasso orMarquee tool.2. On the Object menu, click Object Settings.The Object Settings dialog box appears.CaptionsYou specify the caption justification and linespacing on the Captions tab of the Object Settingsdialog box. All text in a single caption must have thesame Justification and Line Spacing.There are four available justifications:• Flush Left—creates left-justified caption text.• Centered—creates centered caption text.• Flush Right—creates right-justified captiontext.• Justified—creates right-left justified captiontext.Aligning TextYou can set the alignment of captions and atomlabels to justify text to suit your needs. The optionsavailable depend on whether you are aligningcaptions or atom labels. Settings are made in theObject Settings dialog box.ChemDraw 9 Drawing Captions and Atom Labels • 81Formatting Text