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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
text story flows over several pages and you want to change all the text, then it’s
necessary to "Select all" ("Ctrl + A"), and then apply the required attributes.

Copying/Pasting formatted text (RTF)

You can copy "rich text" (as it's sometimes known) from other applications such as word
processors or editors and paste into Xara Web Designer Premium as text, and the fonts,
margins, line spacing and text links will be preserved. This makes it dramatically easier to
retain the style and appearance of your text.

When you paste "Rich Text Format" (RTF) from other applications you are given the
choice of pasting the text in as "Unformatted text" which means it will appear in the font
and style at the cursor where you paste, or "Rich Text Format", i.e. it will retain the style
of the source text.

This also works the other way around. You can copy text in Web Designer Premium and
paste into other applications that support rich text editing and the style (font, size, colors,
margins etc) will be retained. This will only work if you select and copy a single text
object or from a single text flow.

Document font embedding

Xara Web Designer Premium will store the character shapes of all the fonts used in your
document if the font permissions allow it. This means if you give someone else your
design file, or transfer the file to another computer, the text will still look exactly right,
even if the correct fonts are not installed on that computer.

Website font embedding

Most website documents use only ‘web safe fonts’, which are fonts that the vast majority
of computers and other devices will have installed and so which can be safely used on
any website. However you can use just about any font on a website providing the font
permissions allow it, and Web Designer Premium can automatically publish the font with