PARAGRAPH STYLES

Every paragraph of text in a 
document is "tagged" with a 
paragraph style. Switch to Paragraph 
mode and click the mouse pointer on 
a paragraph to select it and 
highlight the paragraph style name 
in the browser.




SWITCHING PARAGRAPH STYLES

To tag a paragraph with a different 
style, select it and click on 
another style name in the browser or 
use the assigned function key.







CREATING A NEW PARAGRAPH STYLE

To create a new paragraph style, 
either select the name of an 
existing style in the browser and 
click on Paragraph style in the Text 
menu, or double-click on the style 
name.

When the Paragraph Style form 
appears, click on the New style box. 
Press [Esc] to delete the old name 
and type in the new style name.
DELETING A PARAGRAPH STYLE

To delete a paragraph style, display 
the Paragraph Style form and click 
on the Delete style box. 

Paragraphs tagged with the deleted 
style name will reset to Body text.

You cannot delete the Body text 
paragraph style!


CHANGING JUSTIFICATION FORMAT

To change the justification format, 
display the Paragraph Style form and 
click on the Options box. Select the 
new format (Justified, Flushed left, 
Centred, Flushed right, Table) and 
click on OK.





CHANGING BULLETS

A bullet is a heavy dot or other 
symbol used before a paragraph to 
give it emphasis.

To change the bullet character used 
at the beginning of a paragraph, 
display the Paragraph Style form and 
click on the Options box. Select the 
new bullet character and click on 
OK.

TURNING HYPHENATION ON OR OFF

To turn hyphenation on or off, 
display the Paragraph Style form and 
click on the Options box. Select 
Hyphenation On or Off and click on 
OK.






TURNING LETTER SPACING ON OR OFF

Letter spacing controls the extra 
space added between letters when 
justifying text. 

To turn Letter spacing on or off, 
display the Paragraph Style form and 
click on the Options box. Select 
Letter spacing On or Off and click 
on OK.


FONT AND POINT SIZE

To change the font and point size of 
a paragraph style, display the 
Paragraph Style form and click on 
the Font & size box. Select the font 
and point size you require and click 
on OK.

You can also change font and point 
size by selecting the style name in 
the browser and choosing Font/size 
in the Text menu.
TEXT STYLE

To change the paragraph text style, 
select the paragraph style name in 
the browser and either choose a 
style from the Style menu or use the 
keyboard shortcuts.

Any text styles, fonts and point 
sizes assigned in Text mode are not 
saved as part of the paragraph style 
or style sheet.

FUNCTION KEYS

To allocate a function key to a 
paragraph style, display the 
Paragraph Style form and click on 
the Function key box.

Function keys which have already 
been assigned will appear dimmed, 
but you can re-assign them.

Select a function key and click on 
OK.
INDENTS AND MARGINS

To set the amount of space in and 
around a paragraph, display the 
Paragraph Style form and click on 
the Dimensions box. Select the space 
above the paragraph, the left and 
right indents, the first line 
indent, and the leading then click 
on OK.



SPACE ABOVE

The Space above setting controls the 
amount of space above the paragraph 
which determines the spacing between 
the previous and current paragraphs.

To edit this space above, display 
the Paragraph Style form, select 
Dimensions and click the mouse in 
the Space above box. Enter the space 
you require and click on OK.

LEADING

Leading is the spacing between lines 
of text. You can set the leading 
manually by clicking in the box and 
typing in the required amount.







HANGING INDENTS (1)

To create a "hanging" indent, select 
Dimensions from the Paragraph Style 
form. Set the First line left indent 
value to less than the Left indent 
and the first line will "hang" on 
the left from the rest of the 
paragraph.




HANGING INDENTS (2)

To insert a character before the 
paragraph, insert the text cursor at 
the beginning of the paragraph in 
Text mode. Type in the character, 
then press [Tab] to move the cursor 
to the Left indent position and 
carry on typing.




WORD SPACING 

To set the word spacing in a 
paragraph, display the Paragraph 
Style form and click on the Word 
spacing box. Select the minimum and 
maximum amount of space between each 
word, and the size of the 
hyphenation "hot zone", then click 
on OK. (The hot zone is the area at 
the end of a line where hyphenation 
is allowed to occur if hyphenation 
is switched on.)
MONOSPACING

To ensure that spaces between words 
in a monospaced font are not 
stretched, display the Paragraph 
Style form, click on Options and 
switch Monospacing On.






SETTING TABS (1)

If you have chosen Table as your 
justification format, set your tab 
stops by displaying the Paragraph 
Style form and clicking on Set tabs. 
You can set up to 14 left, centre, 
right or decimal tab stops according 
to their width or position. You can 
choose the type of leader character 
to be used and the spacing between 
these characters.

SETTING TABS (2)

Alternatively, you can set one tab 
and copy the same setting to all the 
other tab positions.

See the User manual for details of 
how to make the most of tabs.
