Edit texts

Adapt the standard report to your corporate design. You have the option of changing an extensive range of format templates. This includes all body text, heading and table format templates.

Functions

Adjustments can be made to the following parameters:

Font

Font type

You can select a font for your headings, continuous texts and table labels here.

Font size

Select the desired font size (in points) here.

Text mark-up

Here you can select the desired text mark-up. Bold, italic and capital letters are available.

Font colour

Select here the font colour in which your texts are to be formatted.

Raised/Lowered (in point)

Set whether and by what value the text should be moved up or down.

Letter-spacing

At this point you can determine the running width of the text (in point).

Bullets

Note: The options are only available for the formats "Bullet" and "Bullet 2".

For both formats, you can set the bullet, font, font size, text alignment and font colour individually in the Layout manager.

OpenType-Features

Make settings for advanced typographic functions here.

Ligatures

Ligatures are the connection of two or more symbols that make the text more readable or visually appealing.

Number spacing

Choose whether your numbers are all the same width or individual widths.

Number forms

Here you will find the selection about whether, for example, descenders should be used for numbers and other settings.

Stylistic sets

Stylistic sets offer you matching style sheets for simplified design.

Contextual alternates

Contextual alternates are ligatures that depend on the environment and are applied to individual characters or even entire words.

Paragraph

Text alignment

Here you can select the text alignment. You can choose between left-justified, right-justified, centred and justified.

Indent

Left indent (in mm)

Select an amount by which the indent will be set on the left side of the paragraph.

Special indent

Select from the option „Hanging indent” or „First line indent”.

• Hanging indent: The first line of a paragraph is positioned at the margin and all subsequent lines are indented by the amount entered.

• First line indent: If you want to define a first line indent, you can proceed as follows.
  

For a first line indent of 10mm, for example, the following settings must be set:
Left indent: 10mm
Hanging indent: -10mm

Spacing

Spacing before/spacing after (in point)

Select here how large spacing (in points) should be defined between text lines and paragraphs.

Row spacing (in point)

Select the row spacing (in points) of the text here.

Page break before

Determines whether a page break is automatically inserted above the current style sheet.

Line

Note: Both options are only available for headings.

Border above

Define a line here that is located above a heading. You can define both the line colour, type and thickness.

Border below

Define a line here that is below a heading. Here, too, you can define both the line colour, type and thickness.

The “Reset” function

With this function you can reset your set settings. When you click on the button “Reset” ( - Symbol ), the settings are displayed again in their original formatting.

Change format templates

When you change a style sheet, a dialogue appears after you click on "OK". Here you can choose whether you want to change only the current style sheet or the current style sheet including all style sheets based on it.
The change of the style sheet is displayed in the list view of the layout manager.

Change format templates

When you change a style sheet, a dialogue appears after you click on „OK”. Here you can choose whether you want to change only the current style or the current style including all styles based on it.
The change of the style is displayed in the list view of the Layout manager.

Define bullets

In the Layout manager, the bullet character can be defined for the "Bullet" and "Bullet 2" formats.

Enter character
. Select the symbol and/or font to be used as the bullet character.

Font
Select the font to be used as the bullet.

Font size
Select the desired font size (in points) for the bullet here.

Text markup
Here you can select the desired text markup for the bullet. Bold and italics are available.

Font colour
Select the font colour in which the bullet is to be formatted.

Video: Edit texts

The explanation of the individual steps in detail

To edit texts in the Layout manager:

1. Click on the “Layout manager” button in the menu ribbon under “*Premium Layout” in the “Premium Layout” group.
   → The Layout manager opens.

2. Select the desired colour scheme.

3. Click on the arrow symbol to the left of the desired colour scheme.
   → A drop-down menu opens.

4. Click on the arrow symbol next to “Texts” in the drop-down menu.
   → Another drop-down menu opens with the template “Standard”.

5. Select the standard template and click on “Edit” in the Layout manager in the “Texts” group.
   → The "Edit style sheet" window opens.

6. Make the desired settings.

7. Click on “Ok”.
   → A dialogue appears in which you can select whether you want to change only the currently selected template or also all subsequent templates.

8. Select the desired option.
   → The changes are saved and the style sheet is adjusted. To apply the changes to the document, the layout must be applied again ( see Farbschema anwenden)

See also

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Further contents

→ firesys website
→ Customer area
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