User guide

26 Getting Started
Or, for line and fill colours, including line styles:
1. With no object selected, choose the required line and/or fill colours
from the Colour or Swatches tab. Use the Line tab to set a default line
weight, style, and corner shape.
2. Draw your object on the page, which will automatically adopt the
newly defined default colours and styles.
View and edit the text default in the Text Style Palette.
To view and change default text properties:
1. Choose Text Style Palette... from the Format menu.
2. Click Default Text, then from the expanded list of text types, choose
an option.
3. Click Modify... to view current settings for the selected text type.
4. Use the dialog to alter character, paragraph, or other properties.
To save all current defaults as global settings:
1. Choose Save Defaults from the Tools menu.
2. From the dialog, check options to update specific defaults globally:
• Document and object defaults - saves current document (page
size, orientation) and object settings (context toolbar settings).
• Text styles - saves current text styles in the Text Style Palette.
• Object styles - saves user-defined styles from Styles tab.
• Table and calendar formats - saves custom table AutoFormats.
3. Click Save to confirm that you want new publications to use the
checked object's defaults globally.