Managing styles with the Properties inspector

In this section, you will explore how the Properties inspector can be used to apply and create styles:

1. Still in the Chapter06/styles.cptx file you created in the previous section, select the title placeholder on the first slide of the new project.
2. If needed, click the Properties icon on the Toolbar to open the Properties inspector.

The Style Name drop-down list (shown as 1 in the following screenshot) tells you that the style that's currently applied to the selected object is the +[Default Title Smart Shape Style] style. The + sign in front of the style name means that the formatting has been manually changed on top of the original style. Technically, this is called a style override. There's no way of knowing which formatting changes have been made on top of the original style:

Just above the Style Name drop-down menu of the Properties inspector is another icon (marked as 2 in the preceding screenshot). This icon gives you...