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You can make any cell a style. Once you have created a cell style, you can
apply that style to any other cell in any spreadsheet document or frame. For
example, you can create a style that contains the correct font, text size, and indentation
for the heading cells on a report. Whenever you need to format the headings for a
report, enter the correct text into the cells and apply the style. All the
formatting is copied to the selected cells.
Professional writers and designers always use styles because it standardizes the look
and feel of their documents. Moreover, once you have a comprehensive set of styles,
you can more quickly develop and publish documents.
The most useful aspect of styles is their live nature. If you change a formatting
feature of a style, all items or text using that style are automatically updated.
For example, if you change the color of a text style, all text that uses that style is
updated to the new color. The same is true of graphic and word processing styles.
- Enter some sample text or values into a cell.
- Format the cell exactly as you want it to appear for the style. Make sure to set
everything including the font, border, fill, and size.
- Select New Style... from the Styles tool
. A New Style dialog box is
displayed.
 
- Type in a Style Name.
- Set the Style Type. If you want the style to appear in ALL
document types, select Basic. If you want the style to appear in
only spreadsheet documents, select Spreadsheet.
- Check the Copy formatting from selection box. This copies the
formatting from the selected item. If you leave this unchecked, a new
"blank" style is created.
- Click OK to create the new style. Click Cancel
to return to the spreadsheet document without adding the new style.
Once a style is created, you can freely edit the properties for the style.
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IMPORTANT: While you are editing styles you cannot directly
edit any items in the workspace. If you want to edit items in the workspace, you
must close the Edit Styles window. |
- Select the Edit Style from the Styles tool
. An Edit Styles window is displayed.

- The left side of the window lists all the styles available in the current document.
Remember, the Basic section can list text and graphic styles as well as
spreadsheet styles.
- Select the style you want to edit. To unfold a category of styles, click the small
triangle beside the style group.
- The right side of the Edit Styles window lists all the properties for the style that you
can change.
- Use the appropriate tool or menu to change a parameter. For example, if you wanted
to change the fill color, use the fill tool on the FormatBar and select the color,
pattern, or gradient you want. You can also tear-off the tools and select your
options from the floating palettes for the tool. See the Tear-Off
Tools topic for more information.
- When you are finished editing styles, close the Edit Styles window.
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NOTE: If you change the format of a style within the
document, instead of following the above Edit Styles steps, the name of the style in the
Styles Tool changes to display a "+" after the name. For example, if you
directly underline, bold, change the font, size or color of a text that has the style
Styles associated with it, then the Style tool adds the "+" sign to show that a
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Generally, when you copy text or images from one frame to another or one document to
another, the styles associated with the copied material is also copied. You can also
manually copy a style from one document to another.
- Select the Edit Style from the Styles tool
. An Edit Styles window is displayed.
- Select the style you want to copy in the styles list (left side of window).
- Select Copy from the Edit menu. The style is
copied.
- Close the Edit Styles window.
- Open the document where you wish to place the copied style.
- Open the Edit Styles window in the new document.
- Select Paste from the Edit menu. The style is
copied to the new document.
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NOTE: If you copy a style or text or graphics with styles
into a document where an existing style has the same name, Gobe Productive displays a
dialog box asking whether you wish to keep the existing style or replace it with the new
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- Select the Edit Style from the Styles tool
. An Edit Styles window is displayed.
- Select the style you want to delete in the styles list (left side of window).
- Select Clear from the Edit menu. The style is
removed.
- Select the cell(s) you wish to apply a style to.
- Select the name of the style from the Styles tool
. The style is applied to the selected
cells.
- You can also tear-off the style tool and select the style
from the style palette.

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