Redefine Style Sheet
Style sheets are powerful. Now redefining them is a snap. With just one keystroke, Redefine Style Sheet takes the formats right from your text and redefines your style sheet to match.
- No more digging around layers of dialogs!
- Fast and effortless control!
- Dramatically reduce formatting time!
Sure, you can edit a style sheet directly. But why bother? Adjust your text, hit a key, it's done.
Or, you can do the Replacement Routine shown below. It takes at least 24 seconds. Let Xpedient do it for you in a keystroke.
If you want confirmation of which settings will change, you can show a dialog box like the one below. Or turn it off for absolutely instant results. Sometimes we use it just to see what the pesky plus (+) in the style sheet palette represents.
Updating Existing Style Sheets to Match Local Formats
The Xpedient Way
- Click in text that has a style sheet plus local formatting.
- Choose Redefine Style Sheet from the Utilities menu, or press a key.
The Replacement Routine
- Click in text that has a style sheet plus local formatting.
- Choose Edit > Style Sheets...
- Click New.
- Make up a temporary name and type it.
- Click OK.
- Scroll and choose the style sheet you want to update.
- Click Delete. Yes, delete.
- A dialog box appears so you can choose the new style sheet for all text that uses the one you're deleting.
- Click OK.
- Scroll and choose the new one again.
- Click Edit.
- Change the name to the name of the one you deleted.
- Click OK.
- Click Save.
Editing Style Sheets directly involves many dialog doxes: