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Advanced text properties
Right click on a text object and select "ADVANCED TEXT PROPERTIES…" to bring up the
Advanced text properties dialog.

Here you can turn off auto-kerning on the selected text object if desired. See the kerning
section above for information on kerning.

You can also specify that the selected text should be converted to shapes before being
sent to the printer, which is useful if there are any problems printing with the font used.

Text links

You can apply a link to any part of a text object, so that when the document is exported
as HTML the text shows as a clickable link in web browsers.

Use the TEXT TOOL to select the words or characters that you want to apply the
link to, then click the link button on the WEB toolbar.

This brings up the WEB PROPERTIES dialog, with the LINK tab selected. On this tab you
can choose whether to link to a URL, to another page of your website, or even to a
heading or a pop-up layer.

By default when you apply a link to some text, the text is shown as underlined and with
the text link color that is defined for the current document. You can change the link color
and whether or not the links are underlined, on the WEBSITE tab of the WEB PROPERTIES
(on page 462) dialog (right click and choose WEB PROPERTIES or choose WEB
PROPERTIES from the UTILITIES menu). You can also set the color to be shown when the
user moves the mouse pointer over a text link in a web browser (“Mouse Over Color”),
and the “Visited Color” which is used to display links which the viewer has already visited
with their web browser.

Text inside groups for websites

When a document is exported as a website, all groups get exported as images. So any
text inside groups can’t be selected and copied as text by a visitor to your site.