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Note: When you edit the structure of a document in Outline view, TextMaker
automatically applies the Heading 1 ... 9 styles to the corresponding headings.
You should not attempt to change the names of these styles or to apply other
styles to the headings. Any such attempts would work, but not for long, because
TextMaker would automatically reapply “its” styles when you subsequently
changed the outline levels of paragraphs in the Outline view.
Expert tip: Managing headings with paragraph styles
When you change the outline level of a paragraph in Outline view, nothing much
really happens: TextMaker merely applies one of the paragraph styles Heading 1
through Heading 9.
What would some clever fox make of this? You guessed it: a clever user would
infer that he or she could create a heading simply by applying one of the styles
Heading 1 through Heading 9 to a text paragraph – which would be correct.
It follows that when you want to add a new heading you can do so without even
using the Outline view. Simply type the heading and select the desired heading
style from the Formatting toolbar – done.
You can change the outline level of an existing heading just as easily. For example,
if you position the text cursor in a level 2 heading and apply the Heading 3 style,
the heading is demoted to level 3.
And there is an even faster way: By default, keyboard shortcuts (Alt)(1) through
(Alt)(3) are defined for Heading 1 through 3, and the shortcut (Alt)(0) is defined
for Normal. Thus, you can very quickly add headings, change their levels or
demote them to normal text by using these key combinations.
Explanation: The outline level is a paragraph format!
At this point, you might ask: “What do styles really have to do with the outline?”
Simply put, the outline level is an altogether ordinary paragraph format as far as
TextMaker is concerned. If you look at the Format > Paragraph dialog, you will
also find an Outline level option there (on the Paragraph property sheet).
This option is preset to 1 ... 9 for the styles Heading 1 through 9 respectively. This
is the reason you can change the levels of headings with the styles.
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