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Creating new (custom) styles

You may want to add some new styles. You can do this in two ways:

• Creating a new style using the Style dialog

• Creating a new style from a selection

Creating a new style using the Style dialog

To create a new style using the Style dialog, right-click in the Styles and Formatting

window and select New from the pop-up menu.

If you want your new style to be linked with an existing style, first select that style

and then right-click and select New.

If you link styles, then when you change the base style (for example, by changing the

font from Times to Helvetica), all the linked styles will change as well. Sometimes

this is exactly what you want; other times you do not want the changes to apply to all

the linked styles. It pays to plan ahead.

The dialogs and choices are the same for defining new styles and for modifying

existing styles. See the chapters on styles in the user guides for details.

Creating a new style from a selection

You can create a new style by copying an existing manual format. This new style

applies only to this document; it will not be saved in the template.

1) Open the Styles and Formatting window and choose the type of style you want

to create.

2) In the document, select the item you want to save as a style.

3) In the Styles and Formatting window, click on the New Style from Selection

icon.

4) In the Create Style dialog, type a name for the new style. The list shows the

names of existing custom styles of the selected type. Click OK to save the new

style.

Figure 49: Naming a new style created from a selection

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