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button to manually add CSS properties (at the left) and values (at the right). For
more information about CSS, see "Styling and formatting" on page614.
It is also possible to change an element's formatting via a style sheet; see "Styling
templates with CSS files" on page616.
3.
Set the value for the padding in measure or percentage. You can do this for each side
separately, which is equivalent to the padding-top, padding-bottom, padding-left or
padding-right property in CSS. To set the same padding for all sides, check the option
Same for all sides. This is equivalent to the padding property in CSS.
4. Set the value for the margin in measure or percentage. You can do this for each side
separately, which is equivalent to the margin-top, margin-bottom, margin-left or
margin-right property in CSS. To set the same margin for all sides, check the option
Same for all sides. This is equivalent to the margin property in CSS.
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Click OK, or click Apply to apply the changes without closing the dialog.
Personalizing Content
Variable-data printing is a form of digital printing in which elements such as text and graphics
may be changed using information from a database or data file. It prints unique documents with
customized messages for each customer. This is exactly what you can do with Connect: using
variable data you can personalize your company's communications.
Before you can start personalizing the content of a template, you must open a Data Mapping
Configuration, Data Model, data file or database; see: "Loading data" on page658.
Alternatively, you could create a Data Model, without extracting data, within the Designer; see
"Changing the Data Model" on page838.
The most common ways to personalize templates are listed below.
Variable data
Variable data are data from a database or data file that are used to personalize documents for
each customer. Variable data fields can be inserted in the text directly. For example, if a
person's last name can be found in your data, the field that holds the last name can be used in
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