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Formatting placeholder text

You can change the appearance of placeholder text, which displays within fields, by using the Inspector.

1.	In Layout mode, select the field that has the placeholder text.

See Selecting objects.

2.	Click Inspector in the layout bar, then click Appearance.

3.	From the object state list (the second list in the Appearance tab), choose Placeholder Text.

4.	In the Text area, format the text style, size, font, and color; or make the text highlighted, bold, italic, or underlined. Use the Paragraph area to set paragraph alignment.

See Formatting text.

5.	Press Enter or Tab, or click outside the Inspector to apply the changes.

Related topics

Adding and changing field labels

Using the Inspector to format objects