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Basing styles on other styles
Many document designs feature hierarchies of styles sharing certain attributes. The
headings and subheads, for example, often use the same font. You can easily create links
between similar styles by creating a "base" or "parent" style. When you change the base
style, the attributes you change that appear in the related styles will change as well.
Attributes that are not shared among the styles are left unchanged in the related styles.
To define a new style based on an existing style:
Create a new style as explained in
Style dialog box, select the "parent" style in the Based On menu. The new style becomes
the "child" style.
Deleting styles
When you import text from other applications or documents, you may have several
unwanted styles in your styles palettes. You can delete these styles. The appearance of
paragraphs tagged with the deleted style doesn't change, but their formatting is no
longer associated with a style. For information on removing assigned styles from text,
see "Removing assigned styles from text" on page
To delete a style:
1 Select the style name or names in the Styles palette.
2 Do one of the following:
Choose Delete Styles in the palette menu.
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Click the Trash button
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Drag the style to the Trash button at the bottom of the palette.
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To delete all unused styles:
Choose Select All Unused Styles in the Styles palette menu, and then click the
Trash button.
Removing assigned styles from text
You can break the link between text and its assigned style. The text's formatting does not
change, but any changes you make to the style will not be reflected in the text. You can
also remove both the style and the formatting from text to which a style has been applied.
To break the link between text and its style:
1 Select the text whose style you want to remove.
2 Do one of the following:
To remove the style but leave the formatting, click [No Character Style] or [No
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Paragraph Style] in the Styles palette.
To remove the style and whatever formatting was applied with the style, hold down
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Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and then click [No Character Style] or [No Paragraph
Style] in the Styles palette.
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