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Set Element Font

When you display an element on a diagram, the text font defaults to a global setting defined from the 'Diagram Appearance' page of the 'Preferences' dialog. You can change this global default setting if you need to. On the diagram, however, you might want to change the font only on a specific element or group of elements, to distinguish them from other elements. You have several options for doing this.

Access

Select the element in a diagram, then use one of these options.

Ribbon

Layout > Style > Set Font icon (Set Font)

Diagram

Click on an element | (Format Toolbar) | (Set Font)

or

Right-click an element | click (Set Font)  in the toolbar above the context menu

Font Dialog Options

Option

Action

See also

Font

Scroll through the list of font types and click on the name of the appropriate font, which is then displayed in the field at the top of the list.

This setting affects all text in the selected element except for the Note compartment text.

Font Style

In the list of font styles click on the name of the appropriate style, which is then displayed in the field at the top of the list.

This setting affects all text in the selected element except for the Note compartment text.

Size

Scroll through the list of font sizes and click on the appropriate size, which is displayed in the field at the top of the list.

Alternatively, type the font size directly into the field.

This setting affects all text in the selected element.

Strikeout

(This checkbox is not currently available.) Select this checkbox to show the element text with a line through it.

Underline

Select this checkbox to show the element text with an underline.

Color

Simply click on the drop-down arrow and click on a color in the list.

Notes:

  • If you access the 'Font' dialog through the 'Font Style' field of the 'Default Appearance' dialog, the 'Color' field will be inactive
  • The color option at the top of the drop-down list is the 'Default' color set on the 'Preferences' dialog (or, if this has been overridden for this element, the color set in the 'Default Appearance' dialog)
  • If the current font color is a custom color applied through, for example, the Format Toolbar in the diagram, that color is second in the list, identified by the 'Custom' option

Script

If Western script is not appropriate for the element text, click on the drop down arrow and select a different script type.

Sample

Review the combined effects of the settings you have selected.

OK

Click on this button to save your changes.

Cancel

Click on this button to close the dialog without saving any changes.

Notes

  • If you set the element font through the 'Default Appearance' dialog (F4) the changes can be overridden by any different values set through the other two access paths
  • The 'Font' dialog overrides the 'Default Appearance' dialog for all selected elements when the font is applied.

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