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In this video tutorial I'm going to guide you through how to understand Character Tags inside Adobe FrameMaker 9. All of the text that's onscreen is applied a default format based on its Paragraph Tag. Each Paragraph Tag has a number of different properties that can be manipulated to set the format of the text that it contains, however, you may need to apply a custom format to specific text within a paragraph. In order to do so use your Character Catalog. To show the Character Catalog choose Format, Character, Catalog and a tab displays at the side of the screen. Unlike Paragraph Tags, which are applied to an entire paragraph, a Character Tag applies only to the specifically selected characters or words. For example if you have a paragraph that's tagged Body and it's set up to appear as Times 12 point text, using a Character Tag you could choose to change the format of specific characters, then that single word inside a paragraph may appear as Bold and the rest of the text remains unchanged. In this document I have a couple of different Character Tags. If I click inside text that doesn't have any type of a custom format the bottom left of the screen simply displays the name of the Paragraph Tag, in this case Body. But if I click in some of these bold words, the Character Tag Bold appears. If I click inside some of the italicized text Emphasis displays. These are tags based on formats that are available inside my Character Catalog. To apply a specific format you have to first select a given word and then apply one of the Tags, such as Bold, or Emphasis, or Subscript, or Superscript. These are cumulative. I'm going to use Default Font to reset the word and you'll see that if I add just Bold the word becomes bold. If I then also add Superscript, the words both Bold and Superscript. Taking this word Ômeeting' and simply applying only Superscript you can see the difference between the portion that's bold and the portion that is not bold. I'm going to highlight a little bit of all of the text including these two and reset the default font. That removes all Character overrides. Earlier in the document I also have words like Canada, or British; I have words like economical and technological. These are not formatted by just pressing Ctrl-B or clicking the Bold button. Doing so creates an override that is not part of the Catalog and therefore not part of the default Template. If the Character Tags are followed properly throughout your Template then someone can come along and very quickly redefine the appearance of the Template and apply it to a collection of files and reformat all of the content based on a style such as Emphasis and redefine it, for example, up here with a blue underline rather than appearing as italicized text. Therefore it's crucial that you have a solid understanding of the various Paragraph and Character Catalogs that are used inside a document. Don't apply a Paragraph Format, such as a Heading 3 just to apply Bold content. In the same way, don't press Ctrl-B to apply Bold content. Instead, apply the markup using your Character Catalog based on the function that's trying to be achieved. If a certain word is supposed to be identified to stand out, make sure that you use a format such as Character Tag called Emphasis. If other words are supposed to be set up to stand out, use format such as Subscript, or Superscript. This, then, allows anyone who works with a document to consistently format material so that it appears the same from one file into the next. That will dramatically enhance the value of any document that is created.