Styles overview

A style is a named set of formatting attributes. Formatting attributes include font, font size, font style, alignment, margin indents, and spacing. When you apply a style to selected text, you identify what it is and determine how it looks. Formatting Text overview and Inheriting unspecified attributes also discuss styles.

Here is how you open and use the Styles dialog box.

1. On the Format menu, click Styles, or click a Styles button in a dialog box.

   The Styles dialog box appears.

2. Click a style in the Styles list, and then do any of the following:

   • Add — click Add, and then click Paragraph Style or Character Style.

   • Copy — click Copy.

   • Delete a user-added style — click Delete.

   • Modify a character style () — use the General and Font tabs.

   • Modify a paragraph style () — use the General, Font, Paragraph, Bullets and Numbering, and Border tabs.

   • Reset a style back to factory original (default) settings — click Reset.

3. To save the style changes, click OK.

 Tip

• Usage (General tab) describes the purpose for each style.

• "Classified-" styles are used in Classified Dictionary.

"Dictionary-" styles are used in Dictionary and in some cases Reversal Indexes.

• identifies the style applied to text at the insertion point or to selected text.

• The Reset button appears for styles installed with FLEx; Delete for styles you added.

• The Default Paragraph Characters style replaces a deleted character style wherever it has been applied in the project.

• To filter the list in the Styles pane, click the List box, and then click one the options in the drop-down list:

All Styles - for all the styles in this language project

Basic Styles - for all styles except those used by default in dictionary views.

Custom Styles - for styles you added or copied.

User-modified styles - for styles modified by a user.

• See Also: About Headword Number styles, About Classified-Headword style, About Dictionary-Context style, About Reversal-Vernacular style or Edit a record.

Related Topics

Apply Style

Change Text Chart tab font attributes

Format overview

Remove Formatting

Styles for export