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Pasting unformatted text

It is normally good practice to paste text without formatting and apply

the formatting later. To paste without formatting, either press

Control+Shift+V

and then select Unformatted text from the dialog

that appears, or click on the small black triangle next to the paste

symbol in the standard toolbar and select Unformatted text. The

unformatted text will be formatted with the outline style at the cursor

position in an AutoLayout text box or with the default graphic style in a

normal text box.

Formatting pasted text

If pasting the text into an AutoLayout area, then to give the pasted

text the same look and feel of the rest of the presentation. you need to

apply the appropriate

outline style

to the text.

1) Paste the text in the desired position. Do not worry if it does not

look right: it will in a minute.

2) Select the text you have just pasted.

3) Select Format > Default formatting from the menu bar.

4) Use the four arrow buttons in the Text Formatting toolbar

to move the text to the appropriate position and

give it the appropriate outline level. The button with the arrow

pointing left promotes the list entry by one level (for example

from Outline 3 to Outline 2), the right arrow button demotes the

list entry by one level, the up and down arrow buttons move the

list entry.

5) Apply manual formatting as required to sections of the text (to

change font attributes, tabs, and so on).

If you are pasting text in a text box, you can still use styles to quickly

format the text. Note that

one and only one

graphic style can be

applied to the copied text. To do that:

1) Paste the text in the desired position.

2) Select the text you have just pasted.

3) Select the desired graphic style.

4) Apply manual formatting as required to sections of the text.

Tip

Presentation styles are very different from Writer styles and

are applied in quite a different way.

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