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If you are in the habit of manually overriding styles in your

document, be sure that AutoUpdate is not enabled.

Updating styles from a document or template

You can update styles by copying or loading them from a template or

another document. See “Copying and moving styles” on page 65.

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 style. 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.

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