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[260c]Default formats make it easy for you to standardize the font and formatting information for all topics at the same level of indentation in an outline. They provide a convenient way to distinguish between the different levels within an outline or a slide show.
[107c]The information in this chapter applies to outline views, and to the title and body outline boxes of slides
[270c]Default formats determine the font and format for topics at a particular level of an outline. This saves you from having to manually format the text at each and every level, and allows you to create your outline so that it is easy to distinguish one level from another.
[212c]Default format information is associated with the level at which a topic currently resides. This means that promoting or demoting a topic will change its appearance to reflect the default format at the new level.
[315c]You can set default format information by selecting a topic (clicking its handle - the triangular marker to the topic's left) and changing font or other formatting characteristics, as described below. For example, if you select a topic and choose Bold from the Font menu, it and all of its peers will be bold faced.
[505c]It is important to distinguish between default formats and formatting inside a given topic. Any formatting changes made while editing text within a topic will only affect the selected text. Such changes will not be propagated to all of the topic's peers. For example, if you select the text inside a topic and choose Italic from the Font menu, only the selected text will be italicized. But again, if you select the topic itself, any formatting changes you make will be applied to it and all of its peers.
[25c]What are Default Formats?
[428c]To set the default font for a level of an outline, select a topic that resides at that level. Make sure you click the topic's handle; don't select its text. Now choose any command from the Font submenu of the Format menu, or use the Font panel. Any font command you choose, including color changes, will apply to the default font of the selected topic's level. Thus, the selected topic will change, and so will all of its peers.
[90c](You can also select the levels you wish to modify with the Topic ruler, described below.)
[239c]For a font operation to apply only to a particular topic instead of its entire level, select the topic's text instead of the topic itself. That is, click and drag over the text whose font you wish to change; don't click the topic's handle.
[152c]Promoting or demoting a topic into a level will change its font. This doesn't mean that you will lose the formatting of text within that topic, however.
[182c]When you change a topic's level (when you promote or demote it), Concurrence notes how its text differs from the default font of its old level, and tries to preserve the differences.
[423c]Consider this example. Suppose the default font for a topic's current level is Helvetica 10 point, and that you've changed a section of text within the topic to Helvetica Oblique 12 (italicized and enlarged). Now you promote that topic to a level whose default font is Times Roman 12. The text which was previously Helvetica Oblique 12 will now be Times Italic 14 (italicized and enlarged relative to the new default font).
[5c]Fonts
[121c]Use the Topic ruler to set the topic spacing, label style, and default justification for a level of topics in an outline.
[156c]Select a topic (click its handle
the triangular marker to the topic's left), and choose Show Ruler from the Format menu. You should see something like this:
[215c]If the ruler doesn't look like the picture above, you probably have a text selection. Select a topic instead, by clicking its handle. (The Text ruler and the Show Ruler command are explained in Chapter 19, Format.)
[15c]The Topic Ruler
[175c]Indent markers show the horizontal position of a level of topics. Drag the appropriate indent marker left or right to change the horizontal position of a topic and its peers.
[245c]When you select a topic (by clicking its handle), its indent marker is highlighted in white. This is to tell you that the default format for that topic's level is also selected. Formatting or font changes you make will apply to the entire level.
[350c]You can select levels directly by clicking their indent markers. You can also Shift-click to select more than one level. Drag selecting works as well: click in the gray space of the ruler and drag. A white box grows from the mouse, highlighting each indent marker it touches. Formatting or font changes will apply to all of the selected topic levels.
Indent Markers
[332c]Labels are visual cues, like bullets and Roman numerals, displayed next to topics to help separate them and to explain their order in a slide show or outline. The Label Button on the Topic ruler lets you set the label style of the selected levels. You can choose from Harvard style, Legal style, Bullets, or no labels (the default).
[82c]Label styles are set per level. You cannot set the label style for a single topic.
[12c] Label Style
[216c]Topic spacing refers to the amount of space between a topic and the topic above it. You can change the amount of space that will appear above a topic by clicking on the increase or decrease arrows on the topic ruler.
[78c]Topic spacing is set per level. You cannot set the spacing for a single topic.
[14c] Topic Spacing
The default justification of selected topic levels can be set with the Justification buttons of the Topic ruler. Clicking one of these buttons is the same as choosing the Align Left, Center, or Align Right commands of Format menu's Text submenu.
[148c]As with fonts, the justification setting is only a default. You can override it for a particular topic by selecting its text, instead of its handle.
\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\f0\b0\i0\ul0\fs28 You can set default format information by selecting a topic (clicking its handle - the triangular marker to the topic's left) and changing font or other formatting characteristics, as described below. For example, if you select a topic and choose Bold from the Font menu, it
\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\f0\b0\i0\ul0\fs28 Consider this example. Suppose the default font for a topic's current level is
\f1\fs20 Helvetica 10
\f0\fs28 point, and that you've changed a section of text within the topic to
\f1\i\fs24 Helvetica Oblique 12
\f0\i0\fs28 (italicized and enlarged). Now you promote that topic to a level whose default font is
\fs24 Times Roman 12
\fs28 . The text which was previously
\f1\i\fs24 Helvetica Oblique 12
\f0\i0\fs28 will now be
\i Times Italic 14
\i0 (italicized and enlarged relative to the new default font).
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