Tutorial and Techniques of Photoshop and PageMaker: Editing and Removing Style in PageMaker

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Editing and Removing Style in PageMaker

Editing a Style:

To make a formatting change to a style, you do not edit the actual text; you revise the style. If you format the actual text, you change only the local formatting of that text.

Before you edit a style, it is important that you understand the list of formats it contains. The bottom of the Edit Style dialog box lists the formats. The various formats are separated by a plus sign. Most formats have short, sometime abbreviated, description followed by a colon and a value – face: Time New Roman + size:11. Formats that do not require a value are simply listed with a brief description – flush left indicates that the text is left aligned.

To revise the formatting associated with a style, click the appropriate button – Char (Character Specification dialog box), Para (Paragraph Specification dialog box), Tab (Tab/Indent dialog box), or Hyph (Hyphenation dialog box) – and make your changes.

One way to get to the Edit Style dialog box is by choosing Type > Define Styles. You then select the style name from the Style list and click the Edit command button. A faster way is to hold down the Ctrl key as you click the style name in the Styles Palette or double click on the style name in the Style Palette.

Removing Style:

If you do not intend to use the default styles in your publication, you should delete them so as not to confuse with the ones being used. Also if a style you created is no longer in use, it is not a idea to delete it.

To remove style names, choose Types > Define Styles (or press Ctrl + 3). In the resulting Define Style dialog box, click the style name to be removed. Click the Remove command button. Repeat this process until you have deleted the ones you intend to. Then click Ok. If the deleted style had been assigned to a paragraph, that paragraph has no style associated with it now. If you remove a style name accidentally, and you discover the error before you choose Ok in the Define Styles dialog box, click the Cancel command button. Any styles you removed will be restored.