Applying Autostyles to documents

An Autostyle is a collection of formatting properties saved for various control types (text fields, lines, and so on).

When you apply an Autostyle to another document, the system copies formatting information from the Autostyle onto the target document. It replaces formatting properties for all sections and controls (including Grid/Graphs) on the target document with the corresponding properties in the Autostyle. If there is no corresponding section or control on the Autostyle document, it applies the default format for this control type in the Autostyle. If an Autostyle has multiple controls of the same type in one section, the format of the first control of this type in that section is used.

For a multi-layout document, an Autostyle is applied only to the current layout, not the entire document. If the Page Header and Page Footer are shared among layouts, any formatting changes applied to those sections are applied throughout the document. Page Headers and Page Footers are shared by default; see Using separate Page Headers and Page Footers for layouts for instructions to change that. For basic background information on multi-layout documents, including which properties apply to the document as a whole or to individual layouts and instructions to create multi-layout documents, see Creating multi-layout documents.

To apply an Autostyle

1. Edit the document to be formatted. How?

2. If the document contains multiple layouts, click the tab of the layout to modify.

3. Select Apply Autostyle from the Format menu. The Select Autostyle dialog box opens.

4. Locate and select the Autostyle document to apply to the document.

   Autostyle documents created by MicroStrategy are available in the Public Objects\Autostyles folder. User-created Autostyle documents may be saved in this folder or another folder.

5. Click Open. You are returned to the document, with the desired formatting applied, in the Document Editor.