Apply Style

Style formatting determines the appearance of text with a style. A style is a named set of formatting attributes. When you apply a style to characters, words or paragraphs, you identify what it is and determine how it looks.

1. Do one of the following:

   • Select the characters or paragraphs to which you want to apply a style.

   • Put the insertion point at the location where you want to type using the style you will select.

2. Then, do one of the following:

   • On the Format menu, click Apply Style. In the Apply Style dialog box, click the desired style, and then click OK.

   • On the Format toolbar, select the style in the Style box.

 Tip

• If the Apply Style menu command or the Style box is not available, the field that has the insertion point does not allow embedded styles.

• • In the FieldWorks Language Explorer, you can apply character styles to text in many but not all fields, but you can apply paragraph styles only to text in multiparagraph fields.

  • You can also specify a style for every occurrence of content from fields when you configure views. Styles you apply directly to selected text in a field is retained for that particular text, and another style may also be configured to appear in the Dictionary view or Document view (the dialog boxes do not indicate that those styles are applied, because they are applied to individual occurrence of the field).

• Edit a record discusses styles specifically intended for use in Notebook.

Related Topics

Format menu overview

Remove formatting

Styles for export

Styles overview