About Text preferences

    Text preferences affect the appearance of text.

    Note: You can specify Default Font and Default Size differently for different documents. The other Text preferences affect all documents.

      Option   Function    
    Date Format Controls the format of the date when you choose Insert Date from the Edit menu.

    Default Font and Default Size Determine the font and font size AppleWorks uses in new documents.

    Smart Quotes Generates typographically correct (curly) opening and closing quotation marks and apostrophes rather than straight ones.

    Show Invisibles Shows formatting characters such as returns, spaces, and tabs. You can turn invisibles on or off at any time.

    Fractional Character Widths Produces more tightly spaced characters.

    Font Smoothing Anti-aliases (draws fonts smoothly using shades of gray and black) all fonts larger than 12 points.
    This preference overrides the Mac OS font smoothing setting.

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