Add advanced formatting to text

Choose Window > Type > Character Styles or Paragraph Styles.

Select the OpenType Features tab.

Select Stylistic Sets  and choose a set from the list.

You can apply multiple stylistic sets to a range of text. To learn how to apply stylistic sets to a text selection, see Special characters.

To change the style of existing numbers, select an OpenType font and the characters you want to modify. 

In the OpenType panel, choose an option from the Figures pop‑up menu:

• Default Figure: Uses the default style for the current font.
• Tabular Lining: Uses full-height figures of the same widths.
• Proportional Lining: Uses full-height figures with varying widths.
• Proportional Oldstyle: Uses varying-height figures with varying widths.
• Tabular Oldstyle: Uses varying-height figures with fixed, equal widths.

To change the style formation fractions and ordinals, select an OpenType font and the characters you want to modify.

In the OpenType panel, select the Ordinals button to turn ordinals on and off or the Fractions button to turn on and off fractions.

Choose Type > Smart Punctuation after selecting the desired text objects or characters.

Select one or more of the following options:

• ff, fi, ffi Ligatures: Renders ff, fi, or ffi letter combinations as ligatures.
• ff, fl, ffl Ligatures: Renders ff, fl, or ffl letter combinations as ligatures.
• Smart Quotes: Changes straight keyboard quotation marks into curly quotes.
• Smart Spaces: Eliminates multiple spaces after a period.
• En, Em Dashes: Replaces a double keyboard dash with an en dash and a triple keyboard dash with an em dash.
• Ellipses: Replaces three keyboard periods with ellipsis points.
• Expert Fractions: Replaces distinct characters used to represent fractions with their single-character equivalents.

Select the type object, and choose Object > Rasterize.

Choose an anti-aliasing option:

• None: Applies no anti-aliasing and maintains the hard edges of type when it's rasterized.
• Art Optimized (Supersampling): Default option that rasterizes all objects, including text objects, by the specified resolution and applies anti-aliasing to them.
• Type Optimized (Hinted): Applies anti-aliasing that is best suited to type. Anti-aliasing reduces the appearance of jagged edges in the rasterized image and gives type a smoother onscreen appearance.

Select the type that you want to change.

Choose Superscript or Subscript from the Character panel menu.

To change characters to Superscript or Subscript, select the characters and ensure you’ve chosen an OpenType font.

In the OpenType panel, choose an option from the Position pop‑up menu:

• Default Position: Uses the default position for the current font.
• Superscript/Superior: Uses raised characters.
• Subscript/Inferior: Uses lowered characters.
• Numerator: Uses characters designed as fraction numerators.
• Denominator: Uses characters designed as fraction denominators.

Choose File > Document Setup, and do one of the following:

• To use typographer’s quotes, select Use Typographer’s Quotes, choose the language you want, and choose options for Double Quotes and Single Quotes.

• To use straight quotes, deselect Use Typographer’s Quotes.