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How do OmniOutliner styles work?

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Much like the outlines themselves,
they have a hierarchy.

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If you know CSS, for web design,

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it’s a lot like that.
But if you don’t, not to worry.

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Let’s explain it.
At the top of the hierarchy,

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the Whole Document can have a style.

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This is where you’d set things like
the font you want to use everywhere,

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and a basic size for your text.

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Next in line is the the column styles

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so you can style multiple columns.

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Then come Row Level styles.
These get applied

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based on how deep a row is indented.

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Maybe your first Level is big and bold,
second Level gets an accent color,

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and fourth Level is a shade of gray.

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You can see the styles change

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as you indent and outdent the row.

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Below Row Levels in the hierarchy,

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you can select individual rows,
or just a bit of text

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and change the style of that selection.

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If you're using the same
selection style over and over

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create a Named style instead.

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Named styles are great for things
like highlights and emphasis,

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because if you ever want to update the style,

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you only have to change the named style once,

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and it updates everywhere you’ve used it.

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If you’re having trouble
figuring out why some text

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is getting styled in a certain way,
let’s troubleshoot it!

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Say you just changed the text color
for the Whole Document style,

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but the Level 4 Rows are still dark gray.

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It’s because the Level 4 style

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is overriding the Document style.

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The most specific style always wins.

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You can see this really clearly
in OmniOutliner for Mac,

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where the Style Attributes inspector
will show you

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exactly what styles are acting on the text.

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You can click the ‘X’ next to the
conflicting Row Level 4 style

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to remove it, and let the 
Document style take over.

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Maybe you’ve pasted text from somewhere else,

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and it kept the style that you copied with it.

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Selection styles are easy to clear out,

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with “Clear Style”, both on Mac and iOS.

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After you clear these out,

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only the Document, Column,
and Row Level styles will stick around.

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Learn more at the URL above.