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• • July 3, 2012 at 5:53 am #62542
    Scott Croft

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    I'm just putting together a new document and setting up my Paragraph and Character Styles, and noticed that you can't base a Character Style on an existing Paragraph Style, which seems daft to me as it would be really useful.

    For example in the document I am putting together, I want a Body Text paragraph style and I also want Body Text Bold, Body text Italic and Body Text Bold Italic character styles.

    It would make sense to be able to set up my Body Text paragraph style, then bas the three Character Styles on it, this way If I decide to change something about the Body Text, say font size or even font, this would then mean the Character styles would also make this change??

    WHy is this not the case?

  • July 3, 2012 at 7:50 am #62545
    RoManuV

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    For the requirements you express in your post there is no need to base your character styles on anything. Let's take the “Body text Italic” character style – it should be defined as:

    Style name: Body text Italic

    Based on: [None]

    Basic character formats/ Font style: Italic

    You may also define a shortcut too, let's say CTRL + 1

    So if you apply this character style (or type CTRL + 1) over a selected text, it will become italic while keeping all the other paragraph style characteristics. If you will change the paragraph style definition, the text with the “Body text italic” character style applied will change accordingly but it will keep the character style until you explicitly clear it.

    The only drawback is that when you try to apply italic to a bold text, the bold will go away an will be replaced by the italic style. Solution: define both a “Body text italic” and a “Body text bold italic” character styles.

  • July 4, 2012 at 5:51 am #62547
    Scott Croft

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    Having had a bit more of a play with the character styles I can see now that I can merely specify that text should be 'bold' in the character styles sxetup, I thought I had to choose the font etc as well.

    This makes life a little easier, though I still think it could be useful to allow character styles to be based on paragraph styles too.

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