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Text Handling 203
Text Styles
TEXT STYLES are a powerful way to alter the appearance of text throughout a
document with a few clicks.
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TEXT STYLE is a named collection of attributes, such as font, size, color, line spacing
and other text attributes. For example, the main heading at the top of this document
might have a style called ‘Heading 1’, the smaller sub-heading, such as for this section,
and all other equivalent section headings, a Style called ‘Heading 2’.
By updating the definition of ‘Heading 2’, say, to be a different font, then every similar
heading throughout the document will be updated instantly.
Similarly the main text, sometimes called the ‘body text’ of a document is also a
particular style, which Page & Layout Designer calls the "Normal text" style. By
updating that style to be, say, 12 point Times New Roman, then all "Normal text"
throughout the document can be changed in one go, without having to select and
apply the same font change over and over again.
TEXT STYLES are, therefore, rather like the "Named Colors" feature that Page & Layout
Designer also supports, where you can update "Theme Color 1" to be a new color and
all parts of the document using that Named Color take on the new color.
Text Styles InfoBar
There is a Styles drop-down menu on the TEXT TOOL INFOBAR, that allows you to
create Styles, apply them to any text, and to update the definition of the Style.
By default there is a small set of pre-defined Styles, including ‘Normal text’ and three heading
styles, Heading 1 to Heading 3.
Paragraph Style and Character Style
TEXT STYLES comes in two varieties. Paragraph Styles apply to whole paragraphs, and
are also typically used for headings. It’s not possible to apply a Paragraph Style to a
smaller section than a paragraph, so you cannot, for example, apply a Paragraph Style