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<concept id="GUID-E0D10091-1F66-428A-919C-BE8C95DEACD1" xml:lang="en"><title>Paragraph

Styles</title><shortdesc>A style is a collection of format attributes which are based on

the global format layers, and are uniquely identified by a name. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>In addition, styles are characterized by an outline level, a type, and,

optionally, by a style to use for the following paragraph. The outline level

is used to determine which headings should be shown when in document outline

view mode. The type, represented by a UID, is used to differentiate between

the system-provided styles, which are built in to the word processor and cannot

be deleted, and user defined styles, which may be deleted. By default, a paragraph

style's type is initialized to <codeph>KUserDefinedParagraphStyleUid</codeph>. 

 </p>

<p>Another style type which may be encountered is <codeph>KNormalParagraphStyleUid</codeph>.

This type is used to distinguish the Normal paragraph style from all other

styles. This is necessary because the Normal paragraph style is not a <codeph>CParagraphStyle</codeph> object,

but a <codeph>CParaFormatLayer</codeph>, and represents the global

paragraph format layer upon which all styles are based.  </p>

<p>Symbian supports paragraph styles only. Character styles are not supported.

This means that a style must be applied to entire paragraphs, although both

character and paragraph format attributes may be set in the style. Paragraph

styles cannot be used in global text, and their use in rich text is optional.</p>