Operation Manual

122 Working with Text
As both paragraph and character formatting can be applied to the same text, all
of the current text's formatting is displayed in the Current format box on the
tab. In the example below, currently selected text has a Strong character style
applied over a Normal paragraph style.
To update a named style using the properties of existing text:
1. Make your desired formatting changes to any text that uses a named
style.
2. On the Text Styles tab, right-click the style and choose Update
<style> to Match Selection.
All text using the named style, throughout the publication, takes on the new
properties.
To create a new style:
1. Either:
1. On the Text Styles tab, select the style on which you want your
new style to be based.
2. Click the
button.
- or -
• Choose Text Style Palette... in the Format menu, and with a
"base" style selected in the dialog, click the Create... button.
2. In the Text Style dialog, define the style Name, the style to be Based
on, Style for the following paragraph, and the style to be changed to
if Increase Level is applied. Check Always list in Studio to ensure the
style will always appear in the Text Styles tab.
3. In the left tree menu change any character or paragraph attributes,
tabs, bullets, and drop caps you want to include in the new style
definition.
4. Click OK to create the style, or Cancel to abandon changes.