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You can make any text a style. Once you have created a text style, you can
apply that style to any other text in any other document or frame. For example,
create a style that contains the correct font, text size, and indentation for the company
logo. Whenever the logo is needed in a document, enter the text and apply the
style. All the formatting is copied from the style to the selected text.
Professional writers and designers always use styles because it standardizes the look
and feel of documents. Moreover, once you have a comprehensive set of styles, you
can more quickly develop and publish documents.
However, the most useful aspect of styles is their live nature. If you change the
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 spreadsheet
styles as well.
- Type the text you want to use as the template for the new style. Format the text
exactly as you want it to appear for the style. Make sure to set everything
including the font, indentation, and line spacing.
- 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 word processing documents, select Paragraph.
- 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 word processing 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 Edit Styles... 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 graphic and spreadsheet styles as
well as text 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 want
to change the text color, use the text color tool on the FormatBar and select the solid
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 from 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 Edit Styles... from the Styles tool
. An Edit Styles
window is displayed.
- Select the style you want to copy from 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 Edit Styles... from the Styles tool
. An Edit Styles
window is displayed.
- Select the style you want to delete from the styles list (left side of window).
- Select Clear from the Edit menu. The style is
removed.
- Select the text you wish to apply a style to.
- Select the name of the style from the Styles tool
. The style is applied
to the selected text.
- You can also tear-off the style tool and select the style from the style palette.

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