How to set up options for a custom UMG widget

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I’m trying to make a custom UMG widget for a plugin I have. It’s pretty simple I have a text box and a dynamic number of buttons. What I’m looking for is a way to style portions of the UMG widget. EX) change the font and style of the Textblock in the title, the button style for each button, the background etc. I know that you need to have UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere) for a member variable to be editable and visible in the editor. But I don’t want to jsut copy the existing fields that come from a TextBlock or a button or a border and put it into my custom widget if I don’t have to. I want to use the existing ones somehow.

I tried to put a UTextBlock* in the header file to be accessible by the blueprint but that didn’t give me access to the details. I just really don’t want to copy and paste everything and do it multiple times for the different parts of the Widget. Otherwise i’ll need like 2 different Text styles one for the button text and another for the Title text. It just seems like I’m not doing it right.

This is an example of what I currently have.

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This is what I have for my header file currently.

UCLASS()
class VN_MIDDLEMAN_API UVN_DialogAreaWidget : public UWidget
{
	GENERATED_BODY()

public:
	virtual void SynchronizeProperties() override;

	UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category="Appearance")
	virtual void SetDialog(FText dialog);

	UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category="Appearance")
	virtual void SetDialogOptions(TMap<FString,FText> DialogOptions);

#if WITH_EDITOR
	virtual const FText GetPaletteCategory() override;
#endif
	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
	FTextBlockStyle textBlockStyle; //Sets the style for the header.

	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
		FSlateFontInfo Font; //Sets the font for the header.
/*
        //I tried to do this so I didnt need to copy the text attributes and make my own.
        UPROPERTY()
        class UTextBlock* TextBlock;
*/
protected:
	
	virtual TSharedRef<SWidget> RebuildWidget() override;
	virtual void ReleaseSlateResources(bool bReleaseChildren) override;
	TMap<FString, FText> m_DialogOptions;
	TSharedPtr<class IVN_DialogWidgetInterface> m_pDialogWidget;
};