Working with Style Guides
Use this part of the documentation as a reference on the tasks that you can perform to manage your A/E firm's style guides and format your exported project content.
The following tasks are part of the typical style guide workflow:
- Add or copy a style guide.
- Modify a style guide.
- Preview a style guide.
- Apply a style guide to the active project.
- Remove a style guide.
Permissions
To work on a project's style guides, you must be the project's creator or a member of the project team. In addition, the following permissions apply.
Permission | Create/Copy | Modify | Delete | Apply to Project | Preview |
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Administrator | |||||
Author | |||||
Contributor |
- Related Topics:
- Open the Format Page for Style Guides
For a given project, open the Format page for style guides to begin managing, modifying, and assigning styles. - Add a New Style Guide
As an administrator or author, add a new style guide to define new formats for a new submission goal, use case, or formatting requirement. - Copy a Style Guide
As an administrator or author, copy a style to create a new style guide based on the existing guide. This enables you to create variations of a given style guide while preserving the original settings. - Modify a Style Guide
As an administrator or author, modify a style guide to change document and formatting settings for the global font, outline level styles, titles, notes, and units of measure. - Apply a Style Guide to the Active Project
As an administrator or author, apply a style guide to a project to determine how the project contents display in the exported project files. - Remove a Style Guide
As an administrator or author, remove a style guide to delete a collection of set formatting options that you no longer use.
Parent Topic: Project Formatting and Styles