WORKING WITH NOTES DOCUMENTS


Creating paragraph and text styles
Use paragraph styles to save combinations of paragraph and text properties that you use regularly. Once you create a paragraph style, you can then use the style whenever you create a document.

Text Properties Paragraph Styles

1. Put a document in Edit mode and click in the document.

2. Click Text > Text Properties.

3. Click the Paragraph Styles tab.

4. Use the steps in the table below to create and assign styles.


Paragraph style tasks
TaskSteps
Create a style1. Click anywhere in the paragraph with the text properties you want to save.

2. Click Create Style.

3. Enter a name for the paragraph style in the Style name field.

4. Select any of these optional settings:

    • Include font in the style - checked by default; remove the check if you don't want to save the selected paragraph's font in the paragraph style.
    • Make style available for all documents - to make the style available for all documents that you can edit in all applications.
    • Assign style to the Style Cycle key [F11] to make the style available when you press F11 to cycle through paragraph styles.
Apply a style to a paragraph1. Select the paragraph(s) you want to format.

2. Do one of the following:

    • Click Text > Apply Style and select a style from the menu that displays. Select Other to choose a style that is not displayed in the menu.
    • Click Text > Text Properties, and then click the Paragraph Styles tab to select a style from the Paragraph styles list.
Assign a paragraph style to the cycle keyIf you assign a paragraph style to the F11 key, you can press F11to cycle through named styles when you format paragraphs.

1. Click Assign to Keyboard.

2. Select the paragraph styles you want to assign to the cycle list.

Note: A check mark displays next to the styles assigned to the cycle list. To remove a style from the cycle list, click the style.

Change an existing style1. Click anywhere in the paragraph with the text properties you want to use.

2. Click Redefine Style.

3. In the Redefine dialog box, select the paragraph style that you want to change.

Delete a style1. Click Delete Style.

2. Select the paragraph style to delete.

Predefined paragraph styles

Related topics
Changing fonts
Creating Notes documents
Editing documents: putting a document in Edit mode