the Text menu bar. Both achieve the same results with the exception that Dreamweaver features font sizes in the Properties inspector (listed as sizes 9 through 36 and xx-small through xx-large) but offers only the capability to increase or decrease font size from the Text menu. You can collapse the panels on the right side of the work area by clicking the small tab on the side of the panel set. In the following figures, I collapsed the panels in the figures in the rest of this chapter to create more room in the Workspace. 44 Part I: Fulfilling Your Dreams Inserting text from another program If you have text in another program, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, you can copy and paste that text into your Dreamweaver page and even keep the formatting. The Edit menu has two paste options: Paste and Paste Special. If you use the simple Paste option, the content you paste loses any formatting and appears on your page as plain text. If you choose Paste Special, you have several options that enable you to maintain some or all the formatting applied to the text in the program you copied it from. Just click to select the radio button that corresponds to the formatting you want to preserve, and Dreamweaver automatically applies that formatting to the text as it is inserted into your page. Indenting text Type a little more text after your headline text. (I added a few nice things about meeting and marrying my husband - call me sentimental if you must.) A single sentence is all you need, but you can add as much as text as you like. To indent that text, follow these steps: 1. Highlight the text you want to indent. 2. Choose Text?Indent. The text automatically indents. Alternatively, you can use the Text Indent and Text Outdent icons in the Properties inspector. If you want to continue adding text and you dont want to indent it, choose Text?Outdent to transition back to plain text mode without the indent. You can also use the small Indent and Outdent icons located at the bottom of the Properties inspector, just to the left of the Target field. If you just want to indent a short paragraph or two, the Indent option is ideal. If, however, you want to create the effect of a narrower column of text on a page, you may find that putting your text in an HTML table is a better option because you can better control the width of the column. You can find information about creating HTML tables in Chapter 6. You can also achieve similar results using layers, which Chapter 9 covers. Figure 2-5: The Properties inspector provides easy access to common formatting