This dialog contains all the settings for creating and editing text, paragraph and table styles. For full details on creating, editing and using styles please see Text Formatting and Styles.
Table styles and text/paragraph styles
To display the options for table styles just click on one of the entries in the Table Styles section on the left. In the same way, display the options for text and paragraph styles by clicking on one of the entries in the Text & Paragraph Styles section.
Image styles
The image styles are a separate group in the styles list, in the same way as the Table and Text & Paragraph styles.
Screen View and Print View tabs:
You can define two sets of settings for each style: is for electronic help formats (HTML Help, WebHelp and eWriter Help), is for page-style formats (PDF, Print User Manual, Word DOCX and ePUB eBooks).
You can switch between the Screen and Print View style settings in the Help+Manual editor by clicking on the Screen/Print button in the status bar at the bottom of the main program window.
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Name of the current style.
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The "parent" style of the current style. Styles inherit all attributes that you do not explicitly change from their parent style. You can change the parent style by selecting a different style in this field.
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The keyboard shortcut for selecting the style. To add a shortcut just click in this field and press the key combination for the shortcut.
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Creates a new style definition.
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Deletes the current style. If the style has any sub-styles (child styles) they will also be deleted (a warning is displayed). Not active for Help+Manual's standard styles, which cannot be deleted.
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Copies the styles definition set from another Help+Manual project.
This completely overwrites the current style definition set, replacing it with the definitions of the other project.
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These buttons display the dialogs for formatting the Font, Paragraph and Borders & Backgrounds attributes of the current style. The dialogs are exactly the same as the standard Format Font, Format Paragraph and Format Borders & Backgrounds dialogs.
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Displays the layout settings for table styles. These settings are a subset of the normal Table Properties dialog.
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Resets the current styles to the default settings. Always use this before defining a text-only style to make sure that you do not accidentally include paragraph or border attributes.
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See also:
Text Formatting and Styles
Dynamic Styles
