Using templates to reformat existing documents

Once you have created a document its formatting is not fixed. You can add a template file to the document to change its formatting.

You can add a template to a document to reformat it, or drop a document file icon on to a new document based on a template to format it.

Reformatting documents in RISC OS

Either:

  1. Load the document that you want to format.
  2. Open the directory window containing the template you want to use: it will probably be in
    Choices:Fireworkz.Template.
  3. Drag the template file icon into the open document window.
  4. When you release the mouse button the document will be reformatted using the rules outlined below.

or:

  1. Double-click the template icon to create a new document based on it.
  2. Drag the file icon of the document you want to reformat into the new document window.
  3. The document will be reformatted using the rules outlined below.

Reformatting documents in Windows

  1. Open the document you want to reformat.
  2. Choose Insert file from the File menu.
  3. Select the template file you want to use: it will probably be in
    %APPDATA%\Colton Software\Fireworkz\Templates.
  4. Click OK. The template will be added to the document

Rules for merging templates into documents

The following rules are applied when a new template is dragged into a document: