The region editor

The region editor is a tool for managing styles and effects which have been applied to the text in your documents. It allows you to:

To see the styles and effects applied to any text, you can use the style region editor. This also enables you to remove any styles or effects from an area, and to see how the layering of styles affects the look of the document content at any point.

The style region editor tells you the name of styles applied to an area, and gives details of effects such as bold, italic, grids and boxes. This information will appear in the status line.

To use the style region editor:

  1. Place the caret in the area you want to look at.
  2. Display the Regions sub-menu from the Style menu and choose Edit. The Region dialogue box will appear, and the name of the style or effect most recently applied to the area will be shown on the status line.
  3. To look at other styles and effects applied to the area, click the In button in the Region dialogue box. You can move inwards as far as the base style of the document. As you move in, the selection will change to show you the area to which the style named or effects shown in the status line is applied.
  4. Click the Out button to move back out through the layers of styles.