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Create Style Defaults

You can create styles for fonts, fills, lines, shadows, and shape fields unique to each specific element type in your iGrafx diagram and apply them to current and future diagrams. Default formatting applies to all new elements.

Task

Procedure

Set defaults using the Format Diagram dialog box, Defaults tab

  1. On the Format menu, choose Diagram.

  2. In the Format Diagram dialog box, click the Defaults tab.

  3. In the Select Defaults For list, select a diagram element such as Shapes, then click a formatting button, such as Font.

Set defaults using the Shape Library

  1. On the File menu, click Shape Library.

  2. In the Shape Library, select a shape in the Shapes list.

  3. Click Edit.

  4. In the Edit Shape Library Item dialog box, select the Use This Format radio button.

  5. Click the appropriate Format button and choose a formatting option.

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