The main purpose of using styles is to simplify performing formatting operations on a document, and to provide you, as an author of a document, with more flexible control on your document.
A Style is a characteristic of a paragraph. Each separate paragraph of a document might have its own style.
A Style determines both paragraph format of a paragraph and font paragraph of the whole text of the paragraph.
Each document has its own Style List. This Style List contains at least one style – the Normal. But, as a rule, documents contain multiple styles.
The Normal is the basic style of each Style List.
Each paragraph of every document that you open with Atlantis, is associated with a style from the Style List of this document.
You are able to make any changes to the Style List of any document: you can delete styles, modify existing styles, create new styles.
Each style owns the following properties.
Then you press the Enter key to start a new paragraph. Atlantis automatically applies the Normal style to this newly created paragraph.
The most important operation related to styles is applying style to a single paragraph or a selection of paragraphs. When a style is applied to some paragraph,
For example, if the Heading 1 contains the Times New Roman for the Font Face attribute, then after applying this style to some paragraph, whole text of this paragraph will be formatted with the Times New Roman typeface.
After some changes were made to some style of a document, Atlantis reapplies this style to all paragraphs within this document that are associated with this style (reformats these paragraphs).
When applying some style to some paragraph, you should remember the following specifics of this operation. Atlantis does not change a particular Font Format attribute of this paragraph if the whole text of this paragraph has not the same value of this attribute.
The example. Let's imagine that the Bold attribute is turned on for the Heading 1 style. You wish to apply this style to a paragraph that contains two words. The first word is formatted with bold, the second one is not. When applying this style, Atlantis will not change the Bold attribute for the whole paragraph text at all because this attribute has not the same value for the whole paragraph.
Other operations related to styles are Reset Font Format and Reset Paragraph Format. Both these operations are applied to a single paragraph or to a selection of paragraphs.
The Reset Font Format operation reapplies the Font Format of the style associated with a paragraph, to the whole text of this paragraph. Note that when applying the Font Format, this operation ignores the present formattings of the paragraph text.
The example. Let's imagine that the Bold attribute is turned on for the Heading 1 style. You wish to apply this style to a paragraph that contains two words. The first word is formatted with bold, the second one is not. After performing the Reset Font Format operation on this paragraph, Atlantis will format both words with the Bold ignoring that the second word was not formatted with Bold.
To reset font format for the selected paragraphs, either click the button on the toolbar of Atlantis, or press the Ctrl+Space keys.
The Reset Paragraph Format operation reapplies the Paragraph Format of the style associated with a paragraph, to this paragraph.
To reset paragraph format for the selected paragraphs, either click the button on the toolbar of Atlantis, or press the Ctrl+Q keys.
To transfer both the font & paragraph formatting of the current paragraph to the style associated with this paragraph, either click the button on the toolbar of Atlantis, or choose the Format | Special | Update Style command.
To modify the Style List of the active document, choose the Format | Document Style List... command.
For the details about modifying Style List, press the F1 in the Document Style List window that can be called through the Format | Document Style List... command.
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Formatting Font |
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Formatting Paragraphs |
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