Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 134)

114 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents
Use styles saved in a Style Library
Once you have your Style Library set up you can easily take styles from it to use in different
documents.
Suppose that you are busy working on a new document that has a minimum number of styles in it.
You come to a point where you realize that you need a style that you have saved to your style
library.
Import a style the attributes of which you know
1. Choose the menu command Insert > New Style > Import From Style Library….
A sheet appears that lists all the styles available in the various Style Collections in your Style
Library.
2. Scroll through the list and check the styles you want to import.
3. Click Import.
The style now appears in the Styles palette of the active document. You can select text and apply
the style.
Import a style the attributes of which you do not know
As an alternate method, especially if you do not remember the various attributes of the different
styles, you can:
1. Choose the menu command Window > Document Manager (and select Style Library in the left
pane) or choose the menu command Gear > Show Style Library of the Styles palette, or choose
the menu command Insert > New Style > Show Style Library.
This opens the Document Manager with the Style Library selected along the left pane.
2. Select any of the Style Collections you have in your Style Library from the top pane on the right.
The associated styles appear (in their attributes) in the bottom pane.
3. Drag the style(s) you want from the the list at the bottom into any open window.
The style now appears in the Styles palette of the active document. You can select text and apply
the style.
Open a Style Collection to copy text with style for pasting in another document
If the style’s name displayed in its own attributes does not give you enough of an idea of how the
style appears, you can also open a particular Style Collection directly and copy styled text from it.
1. Choose the style collection you want from the menu File > Open from Document Manager >
Style Library.
This opens the actual Nisus Writer Pro document with the style in it. If you have text displaying
that style in the document you can see how it appears as illustrated in Figure 118 on page 110.
2. Copy some text in the style(s) you want to have in the new document.
3. Paste the text into your new document.
The style now appears in the Styles palette of the active document. You can select text and apply
the style.
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Once styles are copied from the Style Library and used in another document they lose all connection
to the original Style Library file. If you make changes to the style in the Style Library file, these
changes do not appear in any of the files to which the style has been imported or copied.