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For graphical buttons, headings, logos etc. this is usually desirable as the text just forms
part of the graphic. But you may have more substantial pieces of text inside groups which
you want to remain as text in your exported web page. To arrange this, all you need to do
is apply the special name “HTMLText” to your text object. The easiest way to do this is as
follows:
1. Go into the TEXT TOOL and click on your text to insert the text cursor.
2. Press escape so that the whole text object becomes selected.
3. Open the Name dialog ("UTILITIES" > "NAMES...").
4. Either select the “HTMLTEXT” name from the “APPLY NAME” dropdown list if you’ve
already used it in the current document, or type in the name “HTMLText”. Then click
“ADD” to add the name.

Now, when you export your website, your text will remain as text and the rest of the
group will be converted to an image. All the text panels provided in the ONLINE CONTENT
CATALOG already have this name applied to the text objects inside them, so the text on
the panels will export as text.

Browsers can’t render rotated text, so you can’t use this name to force rotated text to be
exported as text. The name is ignored in this case.

Copying text appearances

It’s easy to copy the style of any text to any other region of text using the PASTE
FORMAT/ATTRIBUTES feature:

• Select the source region from where you want to copy the style. This can be as little as
a word (just double click).
• Select "EDIT" > "COPY" ("Ctrl + C").
• Select the region of text to which you want to apply the style.
• Select "EDIT" > "PASTE FORMAT/ATTRIBUTES" ("Ctrl +  + A").

If you just have the text cursor positioned in some text when you PASTE
FORMAT/ATTRIBUTES the paragraph attributes will be pasted to this paragraph.

If you have a region of text selected, then PASTE FORMAT/ATTRIBUTES will paste all the
visual attributes of the source text.
Applying attributes to whole text stories
When you have the cursor in a simple or column text object, pressing "Esc" will select the
whole text object. You can then apply an attribute, say a color, and the whole text object
is altered. This is often quicker than performing "Select all" ("Ctrl + A").

With text areas this method only works if all text areas of the story are selected. You can
do this in the SELECTOR TOOL clicking and "Shift + clicking" on the different text areas to
select them. But this method is only possible if the text areas are on a single page. If your