IBM Lotus Symphony


Styles in Documents

The following information concerns Lotus® Symphony™ Documents styles that you can apply using the Style List window.

If you want, you can edit the styles of the current document, and then save the document as a template. To save the document as template, choose File - Save to Template Organizer.

Style Type

These are the different types of formatting styles.

Table 1. Style types
Name Description
Paragraph Styles Use Paragraph Styles to format paragraphs, including the font type and size. You can also select the paragraph style to apply to the next paragraph.
Text Styles Use Text Styles to format single characters, or entire words and phrases. If you want, you can nest Text Styles.
Frame Styles Use Frame Styles to format text and graphic frames.
Page Styles Use Page Styles to organize the structure of the document, and to add page numbers. You can also specify the page style to apply to the first page that follows after a page break.
Numbering Styles Use Numbering Styles to format numbered or bulleted lists.

Style Groups

These are the style groups that you can display in the View by window.

Table 2. Style groups
Name Meaning
All Styles Displays all styles of the active style category.
Applied Styles Displays the styles (of selected category) applied in the current document.
Custom Styles Displays all user-defined styles in the selected style category.
Text Styles Displays formatting styles for text.
Chapter Styles Displays formatting styles for headings.
List Styles Displays formatting styles for numbered or bulleted lists.
Index Styles Displays formatting styles for indexes.
Special Region Styles Displays formatting styles for headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, tables, and captions.
Conditional Styles Displays the user-defined conditional styles.
Hierarchical Displays the styles in the selected category in a hierarchical list. To view the styles in a sublevel, click on the plus sign (+) next to the sublevel name.

Template Organizer

Use the Template Organizer dialog to copy styles from one document to another.


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