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Styling text and paragraphs
There are numerous ways to format text in a template. You can apply a certain font, make text
bold, transform it to uppercase, center it, color it, etc.
This topic explains how to apply local formatting to text. It is recommended though, to format
text using style sheets; see "Styling and formatting" on page286 and "Styling templates with
CSS files" on page287.
Tip
With the Copy fit feature, text can automatically be scaled to the available space in a Box or Div.
See "Copy Fit" on page301.
Formatting text and paragraphs locally
An intuitive way of formatting text locally is by using the toolbar buttons: select some text, or an
element that contains text (see: "Selecting an element" on page195) and click one of the
toolbar buttons to make it bold, center it, create a numbered or bulleted list, etc.
Tip
To quickly change a paragraph into a Heading, place the cursor inside of it, or select the
paragraph (see: "Selecting an element" on page195). Then select the appropriate
element, either on the Format menu, or from the 'Element type' drop-down on the toolbar.
More local formatting options are available in the Formatting dialogs; see below.
Formatting text
To open the Text Formatting dialog, select some text and then select Format > Text. In the Text
Formatting dialog you can set:
l The font, font size, color and background color:
l
Font: Select the font used to display text. See also: "Fonts" on page322. This is
equivalent to setting the font-family property in CSS.
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