Is it possible to add multiple materials to a text object?

Question

I know that for a mesh you can go into edit mode and select vertices and assign a specific material to them quite easily. I want to know if it is possible to do this with a Text object (which has no vertices).

Answer 1

You can do this by going into edit mode and moving using the arrow keys and holding Shift to select which characters to assign to, all other steps are the same.