Operation Manual

242 Editing Objects
1. With no object selected, choose the required line and/or fill colors
from the Color or Swatches tab (see Applying solid colors on p. 319).
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 colors and styles.
To view and change default text properties:
1. Choose Text Style Palette... from the Text menu.
2. Click Default Text, then from the expanded list of text types, choose
an option (e.g., Artistic Text).
3. Click Modify... to view current settings for the selected text type.
4. Use the Text Style dialog to alter character, paragraph, and bullet/list
properties.
To save all current defaults as global settings:
1. Select Save Defaults... from the Tools menu.
2. From the dialog, check options to update specific defaults globally:
• Document and object defaults - saves current site settings (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 formats saved in
Table Formats dialog.
3. Click Save to confirm that you want new sites to use the checked
object's defaults globally.