Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 110)

90 Formatting Documents using Style Sheets Formatting Documents
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The new paragraph style based on the selection
2. Give the style a unique name.
3. Modify the style’s attributes as explained in “Modify a style” on page 86.
Select a range of text with a particular style
You may have your insertion point in a string of text of a particular style and you want to assign a
different style to that. Ordinarily, if it is a character based style you would have to find and select
the entire string of text by guessing where it began and ended. However Nisus Writer Express offers
a special tool for doing this.
1. Click your insertion point inside the area of text the style of which you wish to select.
2. Choose
▶ Select Style Range from the Paragraph Style or Character Style submenu of the Format
menu or
▶ Select Range from the Character Level or Paragraph Level style 0 on the Statusbar
or
▶ Select Range With Style from the Gear pop-up menu in the Styles palette.
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If you have non-contiguous text selected, this extends the non-contiguous selection.
Select all the text in your document with a particular style
You may have your insertion point in a string of text of a particular style and you want to assign a
different style to that text. Ordinarily, if it is a character based style you would have to find and
select the entire string of text by guessing where it began and ended. However Nisus Writer Express
offers a special tool for doing this.
1. Click your insertion point inside the area of text the style of which you wish to select.
2. Choose
▶ Select All Style from the Paragraph Style or Character Style submenu of the Format menu
or
▶ Select All from the Character Level or Paragraph Level style tag on the Statusbar or
▶ Select All With Style from the Gear pop-up menu in the Styles palette.
This selects all text in your document which shares that style.