Operation Manual

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Promotion via email
With a powerful design environment at your fingertips you might like to
produce some stylish sales flyers, datasheets, or other information in relation
to your web site or even completely independent of it. WebPlus’s object
creation capabilities (lines, QuickShapes, and text) coupled with its powerful
colour and transparency control means that you can design a stylish page
easily and then dispatch it via email.
• Design your page and select Send Current Page as Email from the File
menu.
Updating and saving defaults
Object defaults are the stored property settings WebPlus applies to newly
created objects, e.g. text, graphics, and frames. When you create text in your
site, it will have default properties for font, size, colour, alignment, etc. New
graphics will have default properties for line and fill colour, shade, pattern,
etc. New frames will have default properties for margins, columns, etc. You
can easily change the defaults for any type of object.
Default settings are always local—that is, any changed defaults apply to the
current site and are automatically saved with it, so they're in effect next time
you open that site. However, at any time you can use the Save Defaults
command to record the current defaults as global settings that will be in effect
for any new site you subsequently create.
To set local defaults for a particular type of object:
1. Create a single sample object and fine-tune its properties as desired—or
use an existing object that already has the right properties. (For graphics,
you can use a line, shape, or rectangle; all share the same set of defaults.)
2. Select the object that's the basis for the new defaults and choose Update
Object Default from the Format menu.
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 (see Applying solid colours on p.
117). 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.
You can also view and change the current default text properties in the Text
Style Palette.