User Guide
Using Type 359
To edit a style:
1 In the Styles panel, select the style in the scroll list.
2 Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the panel to display the Options
pop-up menu, and choose Edit.
3 In the Edit Style dialog box, select options for text and paragraph attributes.
For information on selecting options, see “Setting precise type specifications”
on page 332, “Setting tabs, indents, and margins” on page 342, and “Applying
text effects” on page 362.
4 To change settings globally, choose one of the following from the Global
Settings pop-up menu:
• Choose No Settings to clear all settings.
• Choose Restore Original Values to revert any settings you changed in step 4 to
their original values.
• Choose Restore Program Defaults to change all settings to the default
FreeHand text settings (the settings for Normal Text).
5 Click OK.
To preserve settings for specified attributes when applying a style:
1 In the Styles panel, select the style in the scroll list.
2 Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the panel to display the Options
pop-up menu, and choose Edit.
3 In the Edit Style dialog box, do any of the following:
• To preserve Font, Style, Leading, Text Effects, or Rules settings, choose No
Selection from the respective pop-up menu.
Note: Choosing None in the Rules pop-up menu removes all paragraph rules in
paragraphs to which the style is applied. Choosing No Effect in the Text Effect menu
removes all text effects.
• To preserve Justification, select the Blank button in the button bar.
• To preserve color, deselect the Style Affects Text Color option.
• To preserve hanging punctuation, select Hang Punctuation until a dimmed
check mark (Windows) or hyphen (–) (Macintosh) appears. (An empty
checkbox indicates that hanging punctuation is turned off.)
• To preserve size and spacing settings (Point Size, Paragraph Spacing,
Spacing %, Range Kerning, Baseline Shift, and Horizontal Scale), clear
the respective text boxes.
• To preserve Tabs and Margins, select No Selection in the text ruler.










