IBM Lotus Symphony


Copying formatting with duplicate formatting in Presentations

You can use the Format Paintbrush tool to copy formatting from a text selection in Lotus® Symphony™ Documents or from an object and apply the formatting to another text selection or object.

  1. Select the text or object whose formatting you want to copy.

  2. On the toolbar, click the Duplicate Formatting icon.

    Tip Icon If you want to apply the formatting to more than one selection, double-click the Duplicate Formatting icon {ENTER ALTERNATE DESCRIPTION HERE}. After you apply all the formatting, click the icon again.
  3. Select or click the text or object that you want to apply the formatting to.

Tip Icon To exclude paragraph formatting, hold down Ctrl when you click. To exclude character formatting, hold down Ctrl+Shift when you click.

The following table describes the formatting attributes that the Duplicate Formatting can copy:

Type of Selection Comment
Nothing selected, but cursor is inside a text passage Copies the formatting of the current paragraph and the character formatting of the next character in the text flow direction.
Text is selected Copies the formatting of the last selected character and of the paragraph that contains the character.
Frame is selected Copies the frame attributes that are defined in Layout - Properties - Frame Properties. The contents, size, position, linking, hyperlinks, and macros in the frame are not copied.
Object is selected Copies the object formatting that is defined in the Layout - Properties - Area/Line/Text Object Properties/Graphic Properties/Control Properties/Form Properties. The contents, size, position, hyperlinks, and macros in the object are not copied.
Form control is selected Not supported
Drawing object is selected Copies all formatting attributes. In Lotus® Symphony™ Presentations, the text contents of the object is also copied.
Text within drawing object or within Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets cells is selected Not supported
Lotus Symphony Documents table or cells are selected Copies the formatting that is specified in Table, Text Flow, Borders, and Background tab pages in the Table - Table Properties. The paragraph and character formatting are also copied.
Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets table or cells are selected Copies the formatting that is specified in the Layout - Properties - Text and Cell Properties dialog as well as the formatting of the cell contents

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