Changing the defaults in your current outline

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Changing the defaults in your current outline

Changing the defaults in your current outline

You can set the defaults for any or all topic levels and notes. The default options include font, text size, text colour and other style choices. When you change the defaults, the changes apply only to the document you are working on, not to new Inspiration documents. To change the default settings for the Inspiration program, see Changing the default settings for the Inspiration program.

To change the defaults in your current outline:

1.On the Formatting toolbar, click the Topic Defaults button btn_topic_defaults.

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On the Edit menu, choose Topic Defaults.

2.Select the outline level for which you want to change the defaults.

To choose defaults for…

…select

All text in the outline, including topics and notes

All Items

Main Idea and all topic levels in the outline

All Topic Levels

A specific level in the outline

The level, for example Main Idea or Level 1, and so on

All notes text in the outline

Notes Text

3.Select defaults for font, type size, text colour and text style.

4.Do one of the following:

To preview the changes and leave the Topic Defaults dialog open, click Preview. Select another outline level or type of text and select defaults.

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To apply the changes and close the Topic Defaults dialog, click OK.