Re: Help with Styles

At 16:56 15/12/2011 +0000, Mike Scott wrote:
>On 15/12/11 16:30, Sharon Plate wrote:
>>I defined a new style which I applied to one document but I would 
>>like to be able to use this style in other documents as well. I 
>>know there must be a way to do this but I don't know where to 
>>begin. Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
>Open the stylist window - the minuscule drop-down list at the top 
>right of it offers a 'load styles' menu entry. Select that, then 
>'from file' in the resulting window. That will copy /all/ styles 
>(well, most! There seem to be a few defaults that don't copy).
>
>Which may or may not be what you need -- I know of no way to copy 
>just one style -- short of editing the xml by hand, that is :-)

There is a way to do this, in fact:
o Open the destination document.
o Go to File | Templates > | Organize... .
o Select Documents from both drop-down menus at the bottom of the 
Template Management window.
o Click File... and browse to and open the document which is the 
source of the style.  (Alternatively, you can just open this document 
first as well.)
o Double-click the source document and then the Styles icon in one 
panel to display its styles.
o Repeat for the destination document in the other panel.
o Drag individual styles between documents to move them or - more 
sensibly, perhaps - Ctrl+drag them to copy them.

You say that you wish to use the style in "other documents" - in the 
plural.  Note that the above technique can be used to copy styles 
into templates, and this may be more appropriate to your needs.  Once 
a style is in a template, it will appear in any document based on 
that template, of course.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

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