> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://captions.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Customizing a Template

> Edit typography, paragraph breaks, the active word, and emphasis on a caption template.

Open **Settings** → **Captions style**, then **Edit** on the template you want to change. The editor has four tabs: Captions, Paragraph, Active word, and Emphasize.

![Caption style editor on the Captions tab, showing typography, color, shadow, stroke, glow, and layout](https://mintcdn.com/captions/YNtloFB9-FRoI6fN/help/web/images/caption-style.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=YNtloFB9-FRoI6fN\&q=85\&s=18c89a35e3bc177278aefd77e8414327)

## Captions

This tab is the base look of the words.

* **Typography.** Font, weight, size, and **Upload font**.
* **Color.** Hex color and opacity.
* **Shadow, Stroke, and Glow.** Turn each treatment on and set its color and size.
* **Layout.** Text offset (X and Y), constraint width and height, minimum font size, and auto size so the line fits.
* **Background.** Fill color, stroke color, stroke width, corner radius, blur, shadow radius, and padding.
* **Transitions.** Animation such as Opacity, applied by page, line, or word. You can also turn on auto movement, auto scale, randomize rotation, and emojis.
* **AI.** Lets Captions vary the treatment with the line.

## Paragraph

Controls how speech is broken into lines and how those lines are set.

* **Line breaks.** Number of lines, break on punctuation or pause, pause length, and character count.
* **Alignment.** Left, Center, Right, or Random.
* **Capitalization.** None, Uppercase, Lowercase, or Title case.
* **Attributes.** Letter spacing, line spacing, and line height.

## Active word

Styles the word that is being spoken.

* Active color.
* Upcoming words color.
* Bold and size for the active word.
* Active word background.

## Emphasize

Styles words Captions should punch up. **AI emphasis** chooses those words for you. You can still set treatments for **Keywords** and **Pictorial words**:

* Underline
* Color and glow
* Supersize
* Font
* Negative
* Transition

Emphasis transitions include an Immediate animation. Super size can keep the word on one line.

Select **Save as new style** when the template should be reusable. See [Saving a custom style](https://captions.ai/help/web/captions/saving-a-style.md). Closing the editor without saving leaves the project on the template you started from.


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