Creating a New Style

You've identified some text formatting that you need, and none of Author-it's built-in styles are close enough for you to apply or to modify. As a result, you decide to create a new Style.

Important: We recommend that if you're sharing work in a team you use permissions to restrict who can create or modify styles. This way you maintain control of your organization's standards.

Remember to Also Change the Word Publishing Template

When you create a new Style to control text formatting in your document's Printed output, you'll need to add a corresponding style to the MS Word publishing template that controls your document's printed output. The template used is specified in the Word Template property of the Book object.

To Create a New Style:

1. Identify your requirements - how do you want the text to appear in each of the output formats you're using?
2. If an existing style is close to what you need, open that style, then duplicate it.

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   Create a new Style object. If your style is a paragraph style, base it on the Paragraph Styles template. If your style is a character style, base it on the Character Styles template (which you'll notice causes many settings to be unavailable because they are only relevant to paragraph styles - that's less uncertainty and less work for you).

3. Change the Style's settings:
   • The Style Definition tab controls how the style looks in Author-it's Editor. For paragraph styles, it also defines the outline level at which the style appears in your document.
   • The Help tab controls how the style looks in your Windows Help output.
   • The Web tab controls how the style appears in all Web outputs (including HTML Help).
   • The Print tab specifies the name of the style applied from the MS Word publishing template, but does not otherwise define any settings. The style settings for your Printed output are defined in the template itself.

     Note: Make sure that the type of style (paragraph or character) matches in Author-it and in Word, or you'll get endless hours of entertainment when publishing your Printed output.

4. Save your changes.