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To delete a reference to a variable:
• In the Text area, highlight the reference you want to delete and press any key.
To delete a local variable in the Text area:
1. In the Text area, select any reference to the variable you want to delete.
2. Right-click and choose Delete data selection.
To delete a local variable using the Variables dialog box:
1. Choose Variables | Edit Data Selection.
2. In the Variables list, select the local variable you want to delete.
3. Press DELETE.
4. Click OK.
To avoid an empty line in output when a line contains only variables, none of which contain data:
1. In the Format toolbar, locate the Skip Empty Paragraphs icon. If this toolbar is not visible, right-click
in the toolbar area of the Text area and choose Format.
2. Set the Skip empty paragraphs option. Click to turn this option on or off. When the option is on, if a
line in the Text area contains only variables, and none of those variables contain data, the line does not
appear in the output. When this option is off, an empty line appears in the output.
10.6.27 Apply a Style to Text in a Text Object
To apply a style to text in a text object:
1. Do any of the following to define the region of text to which you want to apply the style:
▪ To apply a style to existing text, highlight that text.
▪ To apply the style to text you enter from this point forward, click in the Text area at the point at
which you want the style to become active.
2. Choose Format | Font and use the Font dialog box, to select an existing style and, if necessary, modify
its properties. Note that the modifications you make to the style properties are local to this instance of
the style and do not affect those defined for the style.
Style box: Select the existing style you want to use for the text. If you type a style name that does not
exist, PlanetPress Design updates the selection to the style that most closely matches the name
entered, or if no existing style name is a possible match, reverts to the previous selected style.
Font size: Enter the point size you want to use for the text.
Font ratio: Enter a percentage by which you want to shrink or stretch the font spacing.
Color list: Click and select a color for the text from the list of colors that appears.
Color box: View the current color for the style.
Color button: Click to select a color for the style using the Color Picker.
Bold: Click to toggle the bold property on and off.
Italic: Click to toggle the italic property on and off.
Underline: Click to toggle the underline property for the currently selected style on and off. Note that
spaces may not appear underlined in PlanetPress Design, but that they will be when the document is
used to generate output.
Outline: Click to toggle the outline property for the current selected style on and off.
To create a new style from within a text object:
1. Use either the toolbar or the dialog box to display the Style properties dialog box.
Toolbar
In the Style toolbar, click the new style tool ( ).
A. New style tool
Font Dialog
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