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USING TYPE STYLES
You can save type formatting settings as named character and para-
graph type styles using the Styles tab in the Type palette. Canvas
stores type styles with documents. When you open a document, Can-
vas loads the associated styles so you can apply them.
Type styles make it easy to apply formats and maintain consistency
throughout a document. You can base styles on each other to form a
family of styles, so that styles inherit the character and paragraph
attributes of a parent style. Organizing styles in this manner makes
global style changes a simple matter of changing the parent style.
When you change a style, text using the style also changes. In the
case of style families, when a parent style changes, Canvas updates
the entire style family and all text using styles in the family.
Creating new type styles
You can create two kinds of styles, character and paragraph, which
incorporate different formatting attributes. After establishing charac-
ter and paragraph styles, you can apply them independently to create
new combinations.
Character style attributes
Paragraph style attributes
Font
Leading
Type size
Indents
Font style
Justification
Capitalization style
Drop caps
Baseline position
Hyphens
Kerning
Letter and word spacing
Colors (optional)
Text flow settings
Character attributes and colors
(optional)