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Styles based on other styles
In, you can base one style upon another. For example, if you wanted another variant of Heading 2 style,
that was identical in every respect, except a different color, then when you create the new style you
would make it based on "Heading 2" in the Create Style
dialog. This means that if you update "Heading 2" to be, for example, a new font or size, your new Style
would also take on that new font or font size.
New Character Styles are typically based on the "Underlying Paragraph Style", but just with the changes
you want. So this means if you have a Character Style that just sets the text color and nothing else,
applied to a single word, then when you altered the Paragraph Style of the paragraph, this word would
change to match, except its color.
Creating new Styles
To create a completely new Style, change a selection of text to appear how you want and then select
the Create Style menu from the Style list drop-down on the Text Tool InfoBar.
If you want to create a new Paragraph Style it's recommended that you select and apply your changes to
a whole paragraph, before selecting the Create Style
menu option.
This dialog shows a new style, (NewStyle2) being created that is a Paragraph Style, based on an
existing Heading 2 style. The Next paragraph option determines what style will be used for the
subsequent paragraph when typing.
The lower section of the dialog shows the complete definition of this Style. In this case you can see it's
based on Heading 2, with only a color change.
To create a Style that is based on no other Style, that is to say, it inherits no attributes from another style,
select (No style) from the Based on: option, as below.
This dialog shows I am creating a NewStyle2, that is a Paragraph Style and based on no other style. The
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