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264 Text Handling

TEXT STYLES are, therefore, rather like the "Named Colors" feature that Designer Pro also
supports, where you can update "Theme Color 1" to be a new color and all parts of the
document using that Named Color take on the new color.

Text Styles InfoBar
There is a Styles drop-down menu on the TEXT TOOL INFOBAR, that allows you to create
Styles, apply them to any text, and to update the definition of the Style.

By default there is a small set of pre-defined Styles, including ‘Normal text’, and three heading
styles - Heading 1,2,3.

Paragraph Styles and Character Styles

Text Styles come in two varieties. Paragraph Styles and Character Styles.
A Paragraph Style is denoted by a ¶ symbol on the style menu. An A symbol denotes a
Character Style.

Paragraph Styles apply to whole paragraphs, and are also typically used for headings.
It’s not possible to apply a Paragraph Style to a smaller section than a paragraph, so you
cannot, for example, apply a Paragraph Style to a single word within a paragraph. If you
try, then the whole surrounding paragraph will take on this Style.

Just place the text cursor anywhere on the line and select a Paragraph Style from the
style menu, and the whole paragraph will take on that style.

Character Styles, on the other hand, can be applied to any selection of text, from a single
character upwards. For example, if you wanted to highlight certain words in your text in a
different color a Character Style would be ideal. The advantage is that you can then
change the color (or font, etc) of all these highlighted words with a single Style update.