Copying and Pasting Formats

To copy the format of a graph or graph object (text, line, arrow, etc.) and paste it to another graph or graph object:

1. Create and customize your graph or graph object (text label, arrow, rectangle, etc).
2. Right-click on the customized graph or graph object and select Copy Format.
3. Choose from All, or a subset of All such as All Style Formats, Colors, Fonts,Colormap etc.
4. To apply the formatting of the customized graph or object to another graph or object, select a target graph or graph object, right-click, and select Paste Format.

   ... or, to edit or selectively apply formatting to the target:

   Select a target graph or graph object, press SHIFT, right-click and select Paste Format from the shortcut menu. This opens the Apply Formats dialog box (see below). Use this dialog box to Delete Properties or edit list Values.

Selective copying of format properties to the Clipboard

To some extent, you can control which format properties are copied from a graph or graph object and placed on the Clipboard.

1. Right-click on the graph or selected graph object and choose Copy: Format. A fly-out menu lists possible subsets of properties to copy to the Clipboard.
2. Choose one of the options from the fly-out menu.

Selective application of Format properties to target objects

Use the Apply Formats dialog box to selectively apply format properties to the graph or graph object:

1. Use the Apply To list to specify the target (Selection, Active Graph, All Graphs in this Folder, All Graphs in this Project). Note that Selection applies to (and is only available when the target is) a graph object (text, line, arrow, etc.).
2. Specify which Properties/Values are to be applied using the Apply All or Apply Selected buttons.

• Apply All settings in the Property/Value list.
• To selectively apply Properties/Values, hold down the CTRL key while making your selection(s) and click the Apply Selected button.

Properties of text objects that cannot be copied as part of a Format

There are some properties of text objects which cannot be copied and pasted to other text objects. If the text object property is created by inserting an escape sequence into the text object, it will not be copied to another text object.

To illustrate, we have created a text object and selected it so that we can apply format options using the buttons on the Format and Style toolbars. Note that some options -- Bold, Italic, Underline, etc. -- are not available (the buttons are grayed out), whereas others -- font, font size, color, Greek, etc. -- are available.

Those options that are not available when the text object is selected in this manner (with a single mouse click), are formed by inserting an escape sequence into the text. These options can't be pasted to another text object.

Actions that insert escape sequences into text objects:

• Applying format options to portions of text objects when in WYSIWYG text-editing mode.
• Creating or editing text objects via the Object Properties dialog box.

For more information on escape sequences, see Escape Sequences in the Origin Help file.