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Chapter 5 Working With Styles 109
4 To replace styles in your document that have the same name as the styles you are
importing, select the “Replace duplicates” checkbox. Note that replacing a style will
affect any text that uses this style, even text within locked objects.
If an imported style has the same name as a style in the open document and you do
not select the “Replace duplicates” checkbox, a number is appended to the name of
the imported style. For example, if you copy a style called “Body” to a document that
already contains a “Body” style, the imported style will be named “Body 2.”
5 Click OK.
Imported styles will be available in the Style pop-up menu in the toolbar and in the
Styles drawer of your document.
Understanding Style Overrides
When you make changes to individual text attributes—for example, using the Font
command in the Format menu to apply italics to a paragraph of text formatted with
Body style—without selecting a new style, you have created a style override. That is,
the text remains formatted in its original style (Body), but you have applied changes
(italics) on top of the default style attributes. When you select text to which you have
applied style overrides, the arrow next to the style name in the Styles drawer is red.
(The arrow next to a paragraph style name also appears red if you have selected text
with a character or list style applied.)
Overrides can occur when you change the font, typeface, size, or color of text, or
apply the text formatting options in the Text submenu of the Format menu, in the
Font panel, or in the Text Inspector.
If you apply style overrides to some text and then change your mind, you can easily
return the text to the default attributes of the paragraph style.
When the arrow next to a style
name is red, it means that you
have applied changes to this
style in the selected text.