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Using the Outline pane. You can find this pane next to the Resources pane. It displays a
tree view of the elements in the file. Click an element in the tree view to select it.
Deleting an element
To delete an element, select it - as described above - and press the Delete key.
If the deleted element was targeted by a script, you will be asked if you want to delete the script
as well.
Scripts are used to personalize templates. To start learning more about scripts, see
"Personalizing content" on page328 and "Writing your own scripts" on page380.
Styling and formatting an element
Format elements directly
Images and other graphical elements can be resized by clicking on them and dragging the
resize handles. There are toolbar buttons to color, indent or style text. Other toolbar buttons can
left-align, right-align, or rotate graphical elements.
The toolbar buttons only represent a selection of the formatting options for each element. There
are no toolbar buttons to change an element's margins, or to add a border to it, for example. To
access all formatting properties of an element, you have to open the Formatting dialog. There
are two ways to do this:
l Right-click the element and select the type of element on the shortcut menu.
l Select the element (see "Selecting an element" on the previous page) and select the type
of element on the Format menu.
See "Styling and formatting" on page286 for more information about the formatting options.
Format elements via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
It is highly recommended to use style sheets in templates right from the start. Even more so if
the communications are going to be output to different output channels, or if they consist of
different sections (for example, a covering letter followed by a policy). Using CSS with
templates allows a consistent look and feel to be applied. A style sheet can change the look of
multiple elements, making it unnecessary to format each and every element in the template,
time and again, when the company's layout preferences change. See "Styling templates with
CSS files" on page287.
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