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At times, you may want to make geometric elements, dimensions, fills, or annotations look different from other ones on the drawing. To do this, you can edit the formats of the element directly. When you do this, the formats are applied only to the selected element or the one you are about to draw. This overrides whatever settings are applied to it by the style, without changing the style.

Formatting Individual Elements

Before you place or draw an element, you can set unique formats with the ribbon, without changing the style. The commands on the Format menu, except for Style, can also be used to set an element's formats before you place or draw it.

For example, if you click Text Box, a style appears in the Style box on the ribbon. The style contains a format for bold fonts. If you turn Bold off on the ribbon, the text box that you place will not display bold text.

You can also apply unique formats to an existing element, dimension, fill, or annotation. You can select the element and then edit the formats with the ribbon or the Edit > Properties command.

For example, if you select a text box that has a style that displays borders, you can remove the borders with the Edit > Properties command. Since you are changing the element's format, and not its style, the style of the text box still contains borders. If you apply this style to any other text box, it will still display borders.

Formatting More Than One Element

You can change the format of more than one element at a time by selecting the elements and formatting them the same way you would format an individual element. However, all the elements that you select must be of the same type. For example, if you select several text boxes, you can apply settings to all of them at once. You cannot apply the same settings to a dimension and a text box by selecting both of them at once.