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Note: When saving recognized texts in DOCX, ODT or RTF, all the existing styles can be preserved.
For details, see "Saving Editable Documents."
To create, change, and merge styles:
1. On the Tools menu, click Style Editor…
2. In the Style Editor dialog box, select the desired style and adjust its name, font, font size,
character spacing, and scale.
3. To create a new style, click New. The newly created style will be added to the list of
existing styles where you can adjust it.
4. To merge multiple styles into one, select the styles to merge and click Merge…. In the
Merge Styles dialog box, specify the style into which to merge the selected styles.
5. Click Save to save the changes.
You can navigate between text fragments printed in identical styles. In the Style Editor, select the
desired style and click Previous Fragment or Next Fragment.
Editing Hyperlinks
ABBYY FineReader detects hyperlinks and recreates their destination addresses in the output
document. Detected hyperlinks are underlined and displayed in blue.
When viewing the recognized document in the Text window, rest the mouse pointer on a hyperlink
to view its address. To follow a hyperlink, click Open Hyperlink on its shortcut menu, or press Ctrl
and click the hyperlink.
To add, delete or change the text or address of a hyperlink:
1. In the Text window, select the text of the desired hyperlink.
2. To remove a hyperlink, right–click it and then click Remove Hyperlink on the shortcut
menu.
3. To add or change a hyperlink, click Hyperlink… on its shortcut menu, or click on the
main toolbar at the top of the Text window. In the Edit Hyperlink dialog box, you can:
a. Edit the text of the link in the Text to display field.
b. Select or change the hyperlink type in the Link to group:
 Select Web page to link to an Internet page.
In the Address field, specify the protocol and the URL of the page (e.g.
http://www.abbyy.com ).
 Select Local file to link to a file.
Click Browse… to browse for the file to which the hyperlink will point (e.g.
file://D:/MyDocuments/ABBYY FineReaderGuide.pdf).
 Select E–mail address so that the user can send an e–mail message to the
address contained in the hyperlink by simply clicking it.
In the Address field, specify the protocol and the e–mail address (e.g.
mailto:[e-mail] ).
Editing Tables
ABBYY FineReader lets you edit recognized tables in the Text window. The following commands are
available:
 Merge table cells