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270 Text Handling

If your style was based on nothing, ie NO STYLE then the style will revert to No style
appearing as NO STYLE + in the menu and again retaining the same attributes and
appearance.

Note that you can't delete the default styles and you also can't delete styles which have
other styles based on them. You will receive a warning prompt should you attempt to do
so.

Hidden Styles
Text styles can be marked as HIDDEN in the STYLE PROPERTIES dialog, which means they
won’t appear in the main styles list unless the text caret is located in text that uses that
style.
This is useful to help avoid the styles list becoming too long in documents that use a lot
of different styles. Some SmartShapes such as the bar and column charts have their own
text styles and these are now automatically made hidden styles, so they don’t appear in
the main styles list. Similarly the TOC styles used for Tables of Contents are also hidden.
Use the SHOW HIDDEN STYLES option in the styles menu to have all styles included in the
styles list.

Additionally hidden styles can’t become current, so any new text you add to a design
should never use a hidden style by default.

Style Properties
If you want to change the definition of a style, such as the style it’s based on, or just look
at its definition, use the PROPERTIES… option in the style menu. You need to select some
text that has the style applied before you do this, to indicate the style you want to edit.

The STYLE PROPERTIES dialog appears, which looks the same as the CREATE STYLE
dialog shown above.
The style description at the bottom of the dialog describes how the style differs from the
style on which it is based. So if you want to see all of the style’s attributes, just
temporarily select NO STYLE from the BASED ON list, to see a full description. Don’t forget
to reset this to the correct BASED ON style, or click cancel in this dialog, if you don’t want
to change the style!

Applying text attributes

Changing the font size
There are several ways to change the font size:

• Type a new value into the size text box on the InfoBar and press .
• Or select from the FONT SIZE drop-down list on the InfoBar.
• Or use the Font size pop-up slider (on page 213).