A map's overall appearance or default "look" is determined by its underlying Map Style. A style is a collection of the automatic formatting settings used for the various types of elements your map. When you add a new map object, its appearance is determined by the map's current style settings. The Map Style contains settings for:
Central topic, main topics and subtopics (by level)
Org-chart topics and their subtopics
Callout topics and their subtopics
Floating topics and their subtopics
Floating Org-Chart topics and their subtopics
Boundaries
Relationships
Map background
Notes (the default font)
The Map Style may also include a set of topic styles.
Map files and Map Templates include all their own style settings. A new map or Map Template's initial style is derived from the Map Template used to create it. If you want to change the automatic style settings for the current map you can modify the style, or you can apply a different Map Style.
Once you've established the map's overall style you can then go on to change individual topics by applying topic styles and by formatting individual topics. This individual formatting overrides the automatic style settings, and persists if you modify the current style or assign a new style to the map. (Note that you can remove the map's formatting first if you want to return all topics to their automatic style.)
Map Style files (*.mmas files) contain Map Styles that you can re-use by applying them to other maps. This makes it easy to standardize the formatting of maps for your project, department, or company. MindManager comes with a good variety of styles. In addition, you can create a new Map Style by saving the automatic style settings from the current map to a file. You can modify an existing Map Style directly.
You can create standard Map Styles and distribute them to other users to keep map formatting consistent. Users can add these styles to their own Map Style lists in the Template Organizer and apply them to their own maps.
Map Templates also contain their own style information. When you use a Map Template as the basis for a new map, the style of the new map comes from the Map Template. You can modify the automatic style settings of any Map Template (including the template that is used each time you create a new map) by opening the Map Template, modifying its style and saving it.
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