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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/21/2022 8:37 AM, Firstname
Lastname via Qgis-user wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">I have gone that far, but I have four sets of maps
with similar units. If I categorize them independantly, I have
to manually change the colours to make them consistent between
layers. This is very time consuming and I was wondering if the
colour can added to the attribute table so that I can edit them
more easily </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 2:56
AM <<a href="mailto:geo.guide@web.de"
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<div>Context menu of your shapefile > properties >
choose Tab "Symbology" > select "Categorize" in the
first line with the attribute for the name of the
geologic formation as the value in the second line.
Click on "Classify" and style your polygons as
appropriate.</div>
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<div>Regards, Christine</div>
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Assuming all the shapefiles use the same name for the attribute you
will use for categorization, you can save the styling to a style
file from the Symbology tab of the Properties dialog. Do this once,
then load the style file to the other layers.<br>
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