Chord symbol question

Hi,
I often make simple Lead Sheets with the song's melody, lyrics, chords and maybe some repeat symbols.. Nice and easy in Logic.
What I don't like is that if I have a chord like G/F, the letter F is placed lower than the letter G. It does accentuate that the "right hand chord" is G and the bass note an F, but it takes much more room on the staff, and I find it a bit messy next to the "normal chords".
Is there any option that I can choose to have the letters these chords on the same height??? I have been searching the manual and the menus, but no luck so far.
Thanks!!
Regards,
Jaap

thanks - I hadnt thought of the resize tool... it does not seem to work on chord symbols but useful of course for other objects. Click and dragging with the size tool shows the scale change from + to - 16 but no change occurs in the size. Best workaround as been to fiddle with the chord and root font size...

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John Bertram wrote:
Question 2):
Other than simply repositioning those blue chord symbols which appear in the Score window (after selecting the Insert Chords function), or editing them by double-clicking on them, are there any cleverly-hidden formatting options as well: font, font size, making the bottom letter smaller than the root letter, etc? Or has that kind of window-dressing not yet been built in?
Well, no takers after two weeks, but at least I can now answer one of the above questions myself for the benefit of anyone searching this topic.
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