Working with Styles

With Author-it, you control the appearance of the text in your document using Styles. There are two different types of style:

• Paragraph styles are applied to an entire paragraph, and can include alignment, indentation, and numbering, as well as character formatting like Bold or Italics.
• Character styles are applied to a range of characters, usually a word or two, and can only control aspects of character formatting, like Bold or Italics.

Simply apply a style to a paragraph or range of characters when you're working in the Editor. You can specify how the Style appears in the different output formats, independently:

• When you publish your document's Help outputs, the style definitions in Author-it are passed to the Help Compiler and applied to your document.
• When you publish your document's Web outputs, the style definitions in Author-it are included in the CSS file which controls web page text formatting.
• When you publish your document's Printed output, the style whose name you specify from the Word publishing template is applied in Word, and all other style definitions in Author-it are ignored.