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Create and apply styles

A style in Diagram Studio is a named collection of formatting attributes that you can apply to you shapes. You can create styles that format elements of a object: fill, pattern, shadow, line, and text. For example, you might create a style that gives objects a red outline, a green fill, and black bold italic text. A style can be assigned to a object, as a way to determine the object's formatting. Assigning the same style to many objects allows those shapes to share common, standardized formatting.

 

Select three objects and apply one style to make them look the same.

When you draw a new object using one of the drawing tools, the new object will be assigned the current style. If no objects on the drawing page are selected and you change any format settings from the toolbars, that formatting will be applied to all objects you draw until you choose to reapply the original setting. For example, if you click the Bold button, all objects you subsequently draw will have bold text until you click the Bold button again (turning it off). When you define or edit styles in a drawing, the changes you make are available only in the current diagram.

To define a new style:

 

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Choose Stylesheet from Format menu.

 

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Press New button.

 

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If you want to base the new style on an existing style, select that style from the Based On list and press OK.

 

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Select new style from Style Name list and press Edit button.

 

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When the style contains the settings you want, click Apply to apply it to selected objects.

To change a style:

 

1.

Choose Stylesheet from Format menu.

 

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In the Style Name list, select the style you want to change.

 

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Do delete the style, click the Delete button.

 

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To change style settings, click the Edit button. When you finish changing the attributes, click Apply.

To apply a style:

 

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Select one or more objects to format.

 

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Choose the style you want to apply from the Style list on the Format Shape toolbar.


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