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Select an Existing Style to Edit

You edit style sheets through the Edit Style dialog. Usage of this dialog is covered in the "Edit a Style" section below, but to get to it, you go through the following steps.

Bring up the Edit Style dialog for an existing style:

Styles Sheet dialog

1. Choose Format->Style Sheet to start the Styles Sheet dialog.
2. To select a style sheet to edit, either:
   • Highlight a style sheet in the Style Sheets list. *Only Style Sheets from the current session or the style sheet of the current page will be displayed automatically.
   • Click the Browse... button to search the directories or servers and locate and select the file.
3. Click the Edit menu item to start the dialog in.
4. Continue with the steps in the "Edit a Style" section below.

Edit a Style

Whether you are editing an existing style or creating a new style, you work through the Edit Style dialog below.

Edit Style dialog

You access the Style Types pull-down menu with the scroll arrow to the right of the Style Types box. Choices are Paragraphs, Type Styles, Lists, and Horizontal Rule.

Edit styles for Paragraphs:

Edit Style dialog with Paragraph option

"Paragraphs" include the various kinds of text that appear between carriage returns. These include normal paragraphs, headings, etc.

1. Choose Paragraphs from the Style Types pull-down menu in the Edit Style dialog to start the dialog that allows you to determine the appearance of the various paragraph formats.
   • Select a paragraph type from the Edit Style Items pull-down menu. Choices are Normal, Hdg 1 through Hdg 6, BlockQuote, Preformatted, Lineprinter Listing, and Address.
   • Normal is the normal paragraph, the default when none of the other paragraph types are specified.
   • Hdg 1 through Hdg 6 are six hierarchical levels of headings
   • BlockQuote
   • Preformatted
   • Lineprinter Listing
   • Address
2. Choose the Alignment: Left, Center, Right, or Flush.
   • Left makes the paragraph left justified.
   • Center centers each line in the paragraph.
   • Right makes the paragraph right justified.
   • Flush justifies the paragraph on the left and right (except for the last line of the paragraph).
3. Choose the Color: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, darkgray, gray, lightgray, or white, or type in an "rgb" (red-green-blue) color, like "128 128 128" for gray.
4. Set the Indentation (in points) of the First line and subsequent lines (Others) of the paragraph. 1 inch = 72 points.
   • First indicates the number of points the first line of the paragraph is indented
   • Others indicates the number of points all lines after the first line of the paragraph are indented.
5. Enter a value for Leading at the Initial box. Leading (pronounced "ledding") is the vertical blank space above the first line of the paragraph. Values are in points. Default is 12.
6. Click on the Font... button to select a Font, Style, and Size. For any choice, the selected font appears in the Sample Text box. The Fonts and their dialog boxes vary between platforms.
   • Select a font from the choices in the Font box.
   • Select a style from the choices in the Style box. The available choices are in black; unavailable choices are in light gray.
   • Select a size (points) from the choices in the Size box. The available choices are in black; unavailable choices are in light gray.
   • Select special effects (underline or strikeout) if desired.
7. If desired, choose another paragraph format to be edited from Edit Style Items or choose another Style Type.
8. Click OK to effect the changes in the style sheet and return to the Styles Sheet dialog.

Font window in the Edit Style dialog

Edit Type Style:

Edit Style dialog with Type Styles option

"Type Styles" include text and special kinds of text, like anchors, links, etc.

1. Choose Type Styles from the Style Types pull-down menu in the Edit Style dialog to start the dialog that allows you to determine the appearance of the various type styles.
2. Select a type style from the Edit Style Items pull-down menu. Choices are Bold, Italic, Underlined, Fixed Pitch, Superscript, Subscript, Citation, Code, Definition, Emphasis, Keyboard, Sample, Strong, Variable, Link Anchors, Link Cached Anchors, and Anchors.
3. Choose the appearance of the selected type style from the Emphasize To list. Choices are Normal, Bold, Italic, Underline, Underdash, Bold Italic, Bold Under, Bold Dash, Italic Under, Italic Dash, Bold Italic Under, Bold Italic Dash, Subscript, or Superscript.
4. Choose the color from the Color list-red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, dark gray, gray, light gray, or white.
5. Choose a font from the Font list.
6. If desired, choose another Type Style from Edit Style Items or choose another Style Type to be edited.
7. If desired, click the Font... button to start the Font Selection dialog.
8. Click OK to effect the changes in the style sheet and return to the Styles Sheet dialog.

Edit styles for Lists:

Edit Style dialog with Lists option

"Lists" include unnumbered (bulleted) and numbered lists. Each nested level (1-4) of numbered and unnumbered lists can be edited separately.

1. Choose Lists from the Style Types pull-down menu in the Edit Style dialog to start the dialog that allows you to determine the appearance of lists.
2. Select a list type from the Edit Style dialog. Choices are Numbered List and Unnumbered List.
3. Choose the Nested Level you wish to edit. Choices are 1, 2, 3, or 4.
4. If you selected Numbered List in step 2, choose the Numeric Style for the chosen Nested Level. Choices are Arabic, Lower case Roman, Upper case Roman, Lower case Letters, and Upper case Letters.
5. If you selected Unnumbered List in step 2, choose the Bullet Style for the chosen Nested Level. Choices are Filled Circle, Filled Square, Open Circle, and Open Square.
6. Set the Indentation (in points) of the First list item and the subsequent list items (Others) for the chosen nested level and list type. 1 inch = 72 points.
7. Set the Leading values for the Initial List-the vertical space between the first list item and the line above it-and for Within List, the vertical space between items in the list, for the chosen nested level and list type.
8. If desired, choose another Nested Level, another list type from Edit Style Items, or another Style Type.
9. Click OK to effect the changes in the style sheet and return to the Styles Sheet dialog.

Edit style for Horizontal Rule:

Edit Style dialog with Horizontal Rule option

You insert a horizontal rule with the Element->Horizontal Rule menu item. Here we describe how the Style Sheet determines the spacing of horizontal rules.

1. Choose Horizontal Rule from the Style Types pull-down menu in the Edit Style dialog to start the dialog that allows you to determine the appearance of horizontal rules.
2. Select Horizontal Rule from the Edit Style pull-down menu. This is the only option.
3. Set the Leading value (in points) for Initial. This determines the size of the blank vertical space between a horizontal rule and the line above it.
4. If desired, choose another Style Type to be edited.
5. Click OK to effect the changes in the style sheet and return to the Styles Sheet dialog.

Apply Styles

You apply Style Sheets to the page with the Styles Sheet dialog after closing the Edit Style dialog in the Format->Style Sheet menu. When the desired style is selected from the Style box, it always applies to the page where it was created. When default is selected, that particular style applies to everything new viewed, that does not have a style bound to it, even in different MiniWebs.

Apply Styles:

1. Select a style sheet from the Style Sheets list.
2. Click the Use As Default Style box so that it is filled.
3. Click the Apply button.

The Style Sheets dialog closes and the selected style sheet is applied to the page.

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