options to add a preformatted style to your text. [View full size image]   The final option in the Format menu is the Preformatted option. You'll want to use this option in cases where you have text that was formatted in one editor and you want to preserve the formatting when adding the text in Dreamweaver. To demonstrate this option, follow these steps: 1. Create a new blank HTML document by selecting New from the File menu, choose the HTML page option, and click Create. 2. Open the text file titled preformatted.txt, choose Edit, Select All, and then choose Edit, Copy. 3. Place your cursor in the new document and choose Edit, Paste. As you can see from Figure 3.14, the text is broken apart and illegible. Figure 3.14. Pasting text that was formatted in a different editor results in text that is broken up. [View full size image] 4. To fix this and preserve the formatting from the previous editor, press Ctrl+Z (Option+Z on a Mac) to undo the paste operation. Choose the Preformatted option from the Format menu. 5. Immediately choose Paste. This time, the text's formatting is preserved as you can see from Figure 3.15. Figure 3.15. Using the Preformatted option preserves the formatting of text from previous editors. [View full size image] Choosing Typefaces By now you've probably noticed that up to this point, our text appears as Times New Roman. Without choosing a type face, Dreamweaver defaults to the browser default which is, you guessed it, Times New Roman. Of course you're not limited to this font face, but you are limited in terms of how many font faces you can use. Unlike print publishing programs that support thousands of different font faces, browsers, by default recognize a select few. These few include Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Times, Courier New, Courier, Georgia, Verdana, and Geneva. NOTE To understand why we're limited in terms of font faces is to understand how browsers identify fonts. Unlike print publishing programs where fonts can be bundled with the file for final production, web pages use references to font faces. Essentially, you are betting that the user viewing your web page also has on their computer the font you are referencing in your page. If they do, the font is loaded and the user can view the page as you intended. If they don't, the browser defaults to Times New Roman. Browsers use the fonts mentioned above as defaults because 99% of Internet users regardless of platform have these fonts loaded on their computers.   Dreamweaver allows you to choose from these font faces in the Font drop-down menu located just below the Format drop-down menu in the Properties Inspector. To demonstrate the use of font faces, try selecting all the text on the page and choose the Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif option from the Font menu. As you can see from Figure 3.16, all the text changes from Times New Roman to Arial. Figure 3.16. Change the text from Times New Roman to Arial. [View full size image]