How to increase/decrease text size in CS5?

Question

I came straight from DW MX and in CS5 if I want to, for example, change the font size just for one line in an article already published, I don't see a way to do it. At the bottom under Properties, I can select "CSS" and see the font size, but it wants me to create a CSS. I have two text lines in different cells in one table, and I want them to match, and I don't want the rest of the text on the webpage to change. Yet it seems that I have to create a new CSS if I so much as breathe hard.
Is there a way to just change the text size without having to jump through all these CSS steps, which I don't like nor want?

Answer 1

The paradigm of web creation has completely changed and I completely feel your pain.
Nowadays, instead of saying <make this font big make this font italic make this font red>This is the big red text</end all of the make this font stuff individually>
we create a separate style sheet that has the following:
.fontstyle-for-big-and-red {
     font: big;
     color: red;
     font: Italic;
Then we call the style:
<class="fontstyle-for-big-and-red">This is the big red text</class>
Here is the advantage of that:
You make the definitions for the change of text once and then you can use it often in your website without needing to re-create all of those inline styles.
Web browsers load up your styles once and hold them in their cache, so your web page renders faster.
You don't have a ton of inline style stuff in your website cluttering up your content so search engines can really find what you want to talk about in your website.
With time, defining these styles makes repeated page production a snap.
Now, I will be the first to admit that there is a learning curve with all of this. And it is going to take you some time to change the way you work. But, you'll make better websites and, after you have learned all of this stuff, it will be easier for you.
Your schedule being packed, you might consider hiring someone who does know this to cut down on some of the workload while you learn this.