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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 to a single word within a paragraph. If you try, then the
whole surrounding paragraph will take on this Style.
Just place the text cursor anywhere on the line and select a Paragraph Style from the Style menu, and the
whole paragraph will take on that Style.
Character Styles, on the other hand, can be applied to any selection of text, from a single character
upwards. For example, if you wanted to highlight certain words in your text in a different color a
Character Style would be ideal. The advantage is that you can then change the color (or font, etc) of all
these highlighted words with a single Style update.
Paragraph styles can define all text attributes except for bulleted/numbered list properties. Character
styles can only define text attributes that can be applied to individual characters, such as text color, font
size, font weight, etc.
Updating Text Styles
To update a Style definition:
1.
Select some text already in the style you want to update.
2.
Apply whatever changes you require, say an alternative font, or font size.
3.
Select "Update style" from the Style drop-down menu on the Text InfoBar.
For example to change all the "Normal text" to be a different font, select a few words in the "Normal
text" Style, change the font (and any other attribute) and then Select "Update Style" "Normal text" from
the Style Menu on the TextTool InfoBar
Note: When you update a style based on a selection of text, the updated style is re-applied to the
selection. So if you select just a few characters of a Heading 1, say, and make it a new color, then do an
Update Style 'Heading 1', the whole paragraph will take on this new color (because it's a paragraph style
and can only apply to whole paragraphs).
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