WebPlus Essentials User Guide - Serif

100 Formatting Text
Paragraph styles and character styles
A paragraph style is a complete specification for the appearance of a
paragraph, including all its font and paragraph format attributes. Every
paragraph in WebPlus has a paragraph style associated with it.
• WebPlus includes one built-in paragraph style called "Normal" with
a specification consisting of generic attributes including left-aligned,
12pt Verdana. You can modify the "Normal" style by redefining any
of its attributes, and create or adopt any number of new or pre-defined
styles having different names and attributes.
• Applying a paragraph style to text updates all the text in the paragraph
except sections that have been locally formatted. For example, a single
word marked as bold would remain bold when the paragraph style was
updated or changed.
A character style includes only font attributes (name, point size, bold, italic,
etc.), and you apply it at the character level—that is, to a range of selected
characters—rather than to the whole paragraph.
• Typically, a character style applies emphasis (such as italics, bolding
or color) to whatever underlying font the text already uses; the
assumption is that you want to keep that underlying font the same. The
base character style is shown in the Text Styles tab (or palette) as
"Default Paragraph Font," which has no specified attributes but
basically means "whatever font the paragraph style already uses."
• Applying the Default Paragraph Font option from the Text Styles tab
(or the Text context toolbar's Styles box) will strip any selected local
character formatting you've added and will restores original text
attributes (paragraph styles are not affected).
• As with paragraph styles, you can define any number of new character
styles using different names and attributes (or adopt a pre-defined
character style).
Working with named styles
The named style of the currently selected text is displayed in
either the Text Styles tab or the drop-down Styles box on the Text context
toolbar. A character style (if one is applied locally) may be shown; otherwise it
indicates the paragraph style.