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Figure 188: Loading styles from a template
Using the visible styles filters
At the bottom of the Styles and Formatting window (Figure 189), use the drop-down menu to select
a filtering criterion for the contents of the main body of the window. Normally, you will find that only
a handful of styles are needed in any given document, and it makes sense to have only these
styles shown.
So, at the beginning of the writing process, you may want to have access to all the available styles
(by selecting All Styles). However, as the document develops, it is useful to reduce the size of the
list displayed to only the styles already in use (by selecting Applied Styles). If you work on a
document where you want to apply special-purpose styles only (such as those styles used in
writing this user guide), select instead Custom Styles. The Hierarchical Styles view is most
useful when modifying styles as it reveals which styles are linked together. This topic is discussed
in more detail in Chapter 7, Working with Styles.
Figure 189: Styles and Formatting filter
If you select the Paragraph Styles view in the Styles and Formatting window, the drop-down menu
contains many more filtering options so you can view, for example, only Text Styles, Special
Styles, and so on.
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