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Styles

EasiWriter can control the format and appearance of the document using styles.

A style is a group of character, paragraph, structure or document formats to which you assign a name. Using styles you can control many formatting steps with a single command. For example you could change the font, font size, colour, number of columns, borders etc. of a section with a single command.

Styles can be applied to:

Each structure in an EasiWriter document has a default style which you can change. You can also create your own named styles which appear as commands in the Format menu. When you want to change a format you can change the style, save the changes, and everything in the document that uses that style will change automatically.

Defining an emphasis style

  1. Select the text you want to change.
  2. Change the text attributes as required.
  3. Choose Save style changes from the Format menu.
  4. Type in a name for the style and click Create.

The new style will be appended to the Text menu.

The first three styles created will have Ctrl-F6 to Ctrl-F8 appended which can be used as a keyboard short-cut. A style called Plain has been predefined and has Ctrl-F5 as its keyboard short-cut. It is used to remove emphasis.

Style indicator

If nothing, or text, is selected Emphasis styles can be accessed by clicking Menu on the Style indicator.

If a structure such as a Section is selected then the Styles menu changes to show the styles of the selected Structure (if any).

The styles submenu

The Format menu has a submenu that changes its name depending on what is selected. For example, if a list is selected it will say List styles, if a section is selected it will say Section styles and so on.

If nothing, or a paragraph, is selected it will become Paragraph styles. If a structure's 'body' is selected it will also become Paragraph styles . Selecting a structure's body enables you to change all its paragraphs at the same time.

Changing a style

  1. Select the structure or text you want to change the style of.
  2. Choose the new style from the Styles menu (or Text menu for emphasis). Or click Menu on the Style indicator.

Using a structure style

If you have more than one style for a structure you can start a new structure in the style you want without having to change it.

  1. Click Menu on the Style's button.
    If you have more than one style a menu will appear.

  2. Choose the style you want.

Defining a paragraph style

1 Select the paragraph you want to change.

or

1 Select the 'body' of the structure to change all its paragraphs. e.g. Section body.

2 Change the paragraph attributes as required.

3 Choose Save style changes from the Format menu (or click Adjust on the Selection indicator).

4 Type in a name for the style and click Create.

The new style will be appended to the Paragraph styles submenu in the Format menu. The first two styles created will have Ctrl-F10 to Ctrl-F11 appended which can be used as a keyboard short-cut. To change these see Editing Styles below.

Defining a structure style

Styles can be created and appended to the structure's style submenu.

  1. Make the required changes to the structure.
  2. Select it.
  3. Choose Save style changes from the Format menu.
  4. Type in a name for the style and click Create.

The new style will be appended to the <Structure> styles submenu in the Format menu. The first two styles of each type created will have Ctrl-F10 to Ctrl-F11 appended which can be used as a keyboard short-cut. To change these see Editing Styles below.

Changing a structure style

Existing styles can be modified and the changes saved so that everything that uses that style will change.

  1. Make the required changes to the structure.
  2. Select it.
  3. Choose Save style changes from the Format menu.
  4. Click Update without changing the style name.

Editing Styles

You can search for Text or Pictures in a certain style. Styles can be deleted, renamed and you can change the keyboard short-cut.

Renaming a Style

The name of styles can be changed. To rename a style:

  1. Select something in the style you want to rename.
  2. Click Menu in the Style indicator and open the Style information dialogue of the style you want to change by moving the pointer over the arrow to the right of its name.
  3. Make the name change and click Rename.

Deleting a Style

Styles can be deleted even if they are in use. You may prefer to check to see if the style you want to delete is being used before deleting it. See Finding a Style below.

  1. Open the Style information dialogue (see Renaming a Style above).
  2. Click Delete.
    The style will be deleted and you will be warned how many instances (if any) were deleted.
    Note: This step can be undone by choosing Undo (F8)

Finding a Style

  1. Choose Find/replace... (F4) from the Search menu (or click on the Search button).
    The Find/Replace dialogue will appear:
  2. Click on the Menu icon and choose the style you want to find.
  3. Click Find.
  4. Choose Find Same (Shift-F4) to find further occurrences of the style.

Changing the keyboard short-cut

  1. Open the Style information dialogue (see Renaming a Style above).
  2. Click on the Option icon to choose a Keyboard short-cut.
    Note: If the short-cut is already in use by another style it will be moved.

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