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After you have placed an object on the template, you may want to customize its appearance, such as changing its font type or text format, or its font, border, and fill colors.

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• Changing an Object's Font Style

  An object's font style, such as font type and size, its bolded, italicized, or underlined appearance, or the font or background color, is changed by modifying its font properties. This can be done by accessing the Font property page for the object, or by selecting the object and clicking on the appropriate text toolbar icon.

• Changing an Object's Text Format

  You can specify an object's text format using the Text Format property page or the appropriate text toolbar icon. Using the options provided, you can specify whether the text is in single line, paragraph or arc format, and also specify the text alignment for paragraph text format types.

• Changing an Object's Color

  BarTender provides a convenient Color option that enables you to change color settings for object borders, text fonts and backgrounds, lines, and fill properties. It is located on various property pages of an object's Properties dialog and on the text toolbar and the line and shape toolbar.

• Copying an Object's Style

  Using the Format Painter tool, you can apply styles quickly from one object to another object, saving you the time of customizing each object individually.

• Specifying Reading Order

  You can specify the reading order for any piece of text on a BarTender template or data entry form.