Which formats are copied to which items?
In opened models, you can copy the formats of a selected item to another item or to several other items. This depends on whether the format has been copied to one or more items, and between which items it has been copied.
The following formats are copied:
Fill color, including transparency and gradient
Line style, weight, and color
Shadow
Active information of objects and connections
Connection direction arrow (if the source and target connections are of the same connection type)
You can copy the format between the following items:
Object occurrences
Connection occurrences
Attribute occurrences
Graphic objects, for example, circle, square, etc.
Free-form texts and placed model attributes
Groupings (as the target, with the formats being copied to all items in the grouping as if the items were selected individually)
Format copying modifies the following attribute placement characteristics:
Placement and sorting
Font formats and individual characters as well as paragraph formatting for attribute definitions if the formatting includes the entire text.
Alignment
With attribute name and As a symbol setting
When a format is copied, it affects the following characteristics of free-form texts/placed model attributes/attribute occurrences:
Font formats
Alignment
As a comment setting
Character formatting setting
General character formatting.