

(Note, incidentally, that there are “spinner” arrows at the right side of the Styles Editor toolbar clicking the Down arrow produces a second row of commands.)Īn alternate way to open the Styles Editor is by clicking the File menu, Document, Current Document Style.Ĭhanging the Formatting of the Current Document or of All Future DocumentsĪs with Initial Codes, you can use the Styles Editor to make changes only to the current document or to all future documents. From within the Styles Editor, you can use menu commands, drop-downs for the font face and font size, and toolbar buttons to change various formatting options. Just turn on Reveal Codes, either by pressing Alt F3 or by clicking the View menu, Reveal Codes navigate to the top of the document and then double-click the code.

This capability also exists in Windows versions of WordPerfect, but what was once known as “Initial Codes” is now called the “Open Style: Document Style” code. Applying the changes to all future documents made those settings the new defaults - i.e., it modified WordPerfect’s default template (the equivalent of the NORMAL template in MS Word). You could edit the Initial Codes and choose to apply the changes (1) only to the current document or (2) to all future documents. Some of you might recall that in WordPerfect for DOS, there is a code at the very top of each document known as “Initial Codes.” That code contains all of the formatting instructions for the document: margins, line spacing, font, justification, and so forth. Changing the default document settings in WordPerfect
