Using Styles - MACROMEDIA FREEHAND 10-USING FREEHAND Use Manual

You can use paragraph styles to create sets of text formatting specifications that you
can save and apply to multiple paragraphs or text blocks in a document. Paragraph
styles help you maintain visual consistency and simplify formatting tasks.
Paragraph styles let you specify settings for all the type specifications in the Text
Character, Paragraph, and Spacing inspectors (except paragraph indents in the
Text Paragraph inspector), as well as tabs and indents set with the text ruler, text
effects, text color, and overprinting. (For information on overprinting, see
"Overprinting" on page 405.)
You use the Styles panel to create and edit paragraph styles. Paragraph styles
appear in the Styles panel scroll list in italic type, and in the Styles menu in the
Text Character inspector. You can use styles as part of a document or template.
For more information on templates, see "Using templates" on page 114.
You can create styles for objects as you do for paragraphs. You can duplicate,
import, and export paragraph and object styles. For more information on these
procedures, see "Using styles" on page 250.
Choose Window > Panels > Styles.
When you create a new paragraph style, the style's settings are based on the parent
style (the style that is currently selected in the Styles panel). You use the Edit Style
dialog box to enter new settings for the style. You can also edit an existing style.
You can rename a new style or an existing style.
When creating or editing a style, you can set specified attributes to No Selection or
the equivalent, to preserve those attributes with no change in the original text when
you apply the style. For example, to create a style that does not change the font of
the text it is applied to, you can select No Selection for the font specification.
In the Styles panel, select the Normal Text style from the scroll list, or select
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another text style that you want to use as the parent for the new style.
Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the panel to display the Options
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pop-up menu, and choose New.
A new text style is added to the scroll list. New text styles are named Style-1,
Style-2, and so on. To choose specifications for the style, see the procedure that
follows for editing a style. To change the name of a new style, see the procedure
below for renaming a style.