Basic Working Procedures > Text Formatting and Styles

Help & Manual's dynamic styles are defined and edited by selecting Styles > Edit Styles in the Write tab. The style at the cursor position is automatically selected for editing.

If you have not used dynamic styles in a word processor before please study the chapter on Dynamic Styles in the Reference section before proceeding. This will make using styles much easier for you.

By default style definitions are "paragraph styles" and always include both text and paragraph attributes (borders and backgrounds are included in the paragraph attributes).

You can also define text-only styles for formatting text within paragraphs. See Defining a new text style below for details.

1.	Select Styles > Edit Styles in the Write tab to display the Edit Styles dialog.

2.	Select Add Style and enter a name for your new style.

3.	In the Based on Style: field select the style you want to base the new style on. The style will inherit all the attributes of this style. Base paragraph styles on paragraph styles, text styles on text styles. Alternatively, select (None) to create a style without a parent.

4.	Set the attributes of the style with the Font Settings, Paragraph Settings and Borders and Backgrounds buttons.

5.	If you want to create a hotkey combination for selecting the style click in the Shortcut: field and press the key combination you want to use. You will be warned if the key combination is already in use.

6.	Click on OK to save the new style. It is then available immediately in all the style lists.

A text style is a style that only contains font attributes. See Formatting text with styles for details on how to use text styles.

Note that you cannot create a text style based on a paragraph style. This also means that you cannot create text styles based on the Normal style because Normal always has paragraph attributes.

1.	Select Styles > Edit Styles in the Write tab.

2.	Select Add Style and enter a name for your new style.

It's a good idea to use a prefix in the name of your text styles to identify them clearly. For example, you could use T_, so that your text styles would have names like T_Emphasized, or T_ProductNames.

3.	In the Based on Style: field select another text style if you want to base the new style on another style. The style will inherit all the attributes of this style. Alternatively, select (None) to create a new text style without a parent..

4.	Click on Reset Style to make absolutely sure that all the non-text attributes of the style are canceled.

5.	Click on Font Settings and set the attributes of the style.

Don't select the Paragraph or Borders buttons – if you do the style will become a paragraph style.

If you want to create a hotkey shortcut for selecting the style click in the Shortcut: field and press the key combination you want to use. You will be warned if the key combination is already in use.

6.	Click on OK to save the new style. It is then available immediately in all the style lists (see Formatting text with styles for details).

This function replaces all the styles of the current project with styles imported from another project. Only use it if you really want to use the styles defined in another project instead of the current project's styles.

1.	Select Styles > Edit Styles in the Write tab.

2.	Click on Copy Styles From... in the Edit Styles dialog and select the project containing the styles you want to copy.

See Copying styles from other projects for full details on this function.