# Text Inspector

The Text Inspector lets you make fine changes to the layout of text in balloons and captions:

To illustrate the effect of these controls we'll make changes to this sample caption:

- Color and Alignment
- Character Spacing
  Increases (or decreases) the spacing between individual characters:
- Line Spacing
  Increases (or decreases) the spacing between lines:
- Before Paragraph Spacing
  Increases (or decreases) the spacing before a paragraph:
- After Paragraph Spacing
  Increases (or decreases) the spacing after a paragraph:
- Inset Margin
  Increases (or decreases) the amount of margin within the element. This is useful for keeping the text away from the outline: