All the changes that you make relate only to the selected dimension line. They are
stored and persistent, but do not affect the settings of the Dimension Line style. If
you insert other dimension lines, they will have the settings contained in the style.
If you want to make general setting changes to the Dimension Lines style, change the
appropriate style. As soon as you confirm the changes with OK, the new settings will
be applied to all dimension lines.
Working with text in Draw
You can use text in Draw in various ways:
• as a text element
• as text associated with a picture
• as an element out of the Fontwork gallery
• as a Writer OLE object
Configuring text elements with styles
Text, like all drawing objects, can be associated with styles. The text settings in styles
always affect the whole text element. You can format individual parts of a text
element, but only by using manual formatting, which is not related at all to styles and
templates. Styles for characters and paragraphs do not exist in Draw.
Open the Styles and Formatting dialog by pressing F11. Access the formatting
dialogs using the toolbar icons, the context menu, or the Format menu.
The Indents and Spacing, Text, Text effects, Tabs and Alignment tabs of the style
dialog function the same way as in text documents, although some options are not
available in Draw. Specific to drawing objects are the tabs Text and Text Animation.
Text animation
On the Text Animation tab, you can set how the text moves within the object frame.
Such effects are interesting mainly for documents that are to be shown on the screen.
They are therefore more commonly used in the Impress module. For printed text they
do not make any real sense and are not dealt with further in this guide.
Text
On the Text tab, you can determine the behavior of the text block in relation to the
border of the drawing object. The same settings can be altered—as manual
formatting—under the Text... command in the Format menu or in the context menu.
The type of drawing object determines which settings are active and what effect they
have on the text. Shapes behave differently to other drawing objects. To experiment
with the settings, use objects with rounded edges so that differences in spacing and
alignment show up better.
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