The Styles palette

The first item in the sidebar’s Character and Paragraph views is a Styles palette. The palette contains two objects: a style menu showing all the character or paragraph styles in the document, and an action button that shows a menu of optional commands.

Styles palette

The styles menu is hierarchical; all children of a style are grouped together. Child styles are indented so you can see the entire styles hierarchy.

The styles menu shows the style currently in effect. Choosing a different style will apply that style to the selected text, or if nothing is selected, to the next characters you type.

The action button lets you edit, redefine, or duplicate the active style, create a new style, or force all the selected text to adopt the active style.

To apply a style to selected text:

Pagehand applies the style conservatively; that is, it will try to conserve any formatting you have applied to portions of the text selection.

To apply a style to selected text and override any existing formatting:

To edit the current style:

The Styles Editor appears, showing the values for the current style.

You can apply the current formatting to a style by redefining it.

To apply the current formatting to a style:

The Styles Editor appears, showing the modified values for the current style. You can review these values and make other changes before saving the modified style.

To create a new style:

The Styles Editor opens on the Add/Remove tab, where you can set the name and parent of the new style.

To make a copy of the current style:

The Styles Editor appears, showing a copy of the current style.