MACROMEDIA FREEHAND 10-USING FREEHAND Use Manual page 353

Select the text with the Text tool.
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Do one of the following:
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Choose None from the Stroke or Fill inspector.
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In the Swatches panel, select the Stroke or Fill selector, and then select the
None swatch in the color list.
Choose Edit > Preferences. Click Colors.
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Select a Color List Shows option:
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Container Color displays the stroke and fill attributes of selected text blocks
and applies color to the selected text block, not the text.
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Text Color displays the stroke and fill attributes of selected text and applies
color to the selected text, not the text blocks.
Click OK.
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You can copy text attributes from one text selection to another by copying and
pasting. Attributes you can copy include the settings in the Text Character,
Paragraph, and Spacing inspectors, as well as tabs, indents, margins, and colors.
Use the Text tool to select the text or text block whose attributes you want to
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copy, and choose Edit > Copy Attributes.
Use the Text tool to select the text or text block to which you want to apply the
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attributes, and choose Edit > Paste Attributes.
You can format text into columns and rows. Using columns and rows or tabs and
paragraph breaks, you can create tables. You can balance text in columns to
control how the text flows across a group of columns.