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Change Text Formatting

Make changes in text formatting

Make changes in template text formatting such as alignment, indents, and drop caps.

With or without font changes or other alterations, you can alter the look of a template with changes to paragraph attributes. Turn a list into a bullet list (or change existing bullets), change the text alignment, add an oversized initial cap in the same or a different font. You can change the leading, paragraph indents or spacing specified in the original template.

After replacing the placeholder for the graphic and text in the illustrated template with a new photo and copy, among other changes, a drop cap in a contrasting font is added as well as bullets added to the sidebar list. Additionally, text is changed to fully-justified alignment.

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