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Note
When !important is added to a style rule (e.g. color: red !important;), this rule
overrides any other style rules, even inline style rules.
Styling text and paragraphs
There are numerous ways to format text in a template. You can apply a certain font, make text
bold, transform it to uppercase, center it, color it, etc.
This topic explains how to apply local formatting to text. It is recommended though, to format
text using style sheets; see "Styling and formatting" on page551 and "Styling templates with
CSS files" on page553.
Tip
With the Copy fit feature, text can automatically be scaled to the available space in a Box or Div.
See "Copy Fit" on page566.
Formatting text and paragraphs locally
An intuitive way of formatting text locally is by using the toolbar buttons: select some text, or an
element that contains text (see: "Selecting an element" on page469) and click one of the
toolbar buttons to make it bold, center it, create a numbered or bulleted list, etc.
To quickly change a paragraph into a Heading, Address or Pre element, select the paragraph
(see: "Selecting an element" on page469) and on the Format menu, select the appropriate
element.
More local formatting options are available in the Formatting dialogs; see below.
Formatting text
To open the Text Formatting dialog, select some text and then select Format > Text. In the Text
Formatting dialog you can set:
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