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Formatting text

Formatting text can give a presentation a consistent look and a

dynamic feel. The appropriate use of formatting can even enhance the

audience’s understanding of your message by holding their interest.

Whenever you enter text, either in an AutoLayout text box or in a

normal text box, it already comes with an underlying style. Generally

this style is the outline level of the point where the text was entered for

AutoLayout text boxes or the Default Graphic style for text boxes.

Sometimes, as seen also in the “Pasting text” section on page 57, it is

very useful to re-apply the baseline style to a selection of text, thus

eliminating any manual formatting applied to it (particularly if you

made a mistake and you do not know how to undo it). On these

occasions, select the manually formatted text, and then select Format

> Default formatting from the menu bar.

Using styles to format text

This chapter describes ways to apply manual formatting, but you are

encouraged to use styles to really get the best out of Impress. The

good news is that all the information given here can be immediately

reused for applying styles. Chapter 2 describes how to use styles

efficiently and the difference between the presentation and graphic

styles available in Impress.

Modifying a style

In Impress there are two categories of styles: presentation styles and

graphics styles. When inserting text in an AutoLayout area, the

presentation styles become available, while when inserting text in a

text box or a graphic object it is possible to apply the graphic styles.

It is possible to create new graphics styles, but not the presentation

styles which are fixed and can only be modified.

To modify a style, follow these steps:

1) Open the Styles and Formatting window by pressing

F11

selecting Format > Styles and Formatting from the menu bar.

2) Select the style category by clicking on either the Presentation

Styles icon or the Graphic Styles icon at the top of the Style and

Formatting window.

3) Right-click on the style to be modified and select Modify from the

pop-up menu.

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