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You can use styles to control the layout of the text elements in Reportal. These styles are set up in the Layout and Styles toolbox (go to Toolboxes Overview for more information) then linked to the text elements that are to use them. In this way, if you wish to change the look of a text element type (for example you wish to increase the font size of the text), you only have to make the change in the one place and all the text elements in the report that use that style will automatically be updated.
When you first create a Reportal report you are asked to specify a template to be used, and this template will contain a number of "default" styles that will always be available to the report. You and/or your company can create new styles as required (go to About Styles for more information), and you can also link the report to a Survey Layout in Forsta Authoring and use the HTML styles from the survey layout (go to Selecting a Survey Layout for more information).
Note: If you apply a style to a text element, then the text element will always adopt the properties defined by the style. If you select a Survey Layout, apply a style from the Survey Layout to a text element, then later select a different Survey Layout, if the new Survey Layout includes a style of the same name as that in the original layout, then the text element will be updated to conform with the properties of the new style. If the new layout does not include a style of the same name, then the text element will revert to the default settings.