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Inheriting Settings By Using Object Templates

As an author or editor, one of your main challenges is maintaining consistency and standards throughout your documentation.

Author-it offers you unprecedented control of standards. One of its main features is the ability to use property inheritance to preset some settings of any component of your document. When you base any Author-it object on an object template, it inherits settings from the template. This makes it faster to create new objects, ensures consistency, and makes it easy to update the standards of many components at the same time. Author-it's built-in user security means that you can say who is able to change standards once they're set.

In This Section

What are Object Templates?

Choosing an Object Template

Basing Objects on a Template

Can I Base an Object Template on Another Template?

Changing Inherited Settings

See Also

Understanding Author-it's Concepts

Understanding the Components of Your Document

Understanding Your Document's Different Output Formats

Why Separate Structure From Format?

What's Single-Source?

What are Libraries and Books in Author-it?

Version Control

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