In addition to facilitating the application of paragraph styles, the eXtyles style palette enables quick and flexible navigation through your document via the controls on the bottom of the palette. By using these controls to navigate through and manipulate your content, you can remain within the style palette, which allows you to move more efficiently through the document.

Tip

Underlined letters on the palette buttons designate hot keys. For example, when the style palette is active (i.e., you have clicked into it) you can type "x" on your keyboard to skip to the next paragraph, or "d" to delete a paragraph.

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Button	Description
With prev	Click “With prev” to merge the selected paragraph with the previous one (the carriage return between them is replaced with a space). Use this function to merge an unwanted heading into the paragraph following it, for instance, or if two paragraphs are separate but should be one
New pgraf	Click “New pgraf” to insert a return after the first sentence of the paragraph, creating two paragraphs from one. This feature is designed primarily to allow faster formatting of run-in heads. The new paragraph will be created after the first period, colon, question mark, hyphen, or en dash that is followed by a space, or an em dash (in this case, regardless of a following space). To format a two-sentence head, select “New pgraf,” apply the correct style for the heading, select “New pgraf” again, and then select “With prev.” If a paragraph does not have more than one sentence, selecting “New pgraf” will not do anything.
Previous	Click “Previous” to move the highlight to the previous paragraph.
Next	Click “Next” to advance to the next paragraph without changing the style of the selected paragraph.
Delete	Click “Delete” to remove the selected paragraph from the document and advance to the next paragraph.
Undo	Click “Undo” (as many times as necessary) to undo the last operations.

Warning

The “Undo” history is cleared when you click into the Word document or close the palette. The Undo button will be greyed out when the Undo history is cleared, indicating that you can not Undo the previous action from the palette.

Additional Actions

The behavior of the navigation buttons on the eXtyles style palette can be modified when used in combination with other keyboard items.

Button	Description
Shift + Next (x)	If you hold Shift while clicking “Next” (or, typing the hotkey “x”), eXtyles will skip all paragraphs tagged with the current paragraph’s style, stopping at the next new paragraph style
Shift + Table Body	If you hold Shift while clicking the Table Body style, eXtyles will apply the table body style to the entire table; that is, all of the content formatted within Word's table cells.
Tab	Within the style palette, you can use the Tab (and Shift + Tab) keys on the keyboard to switch between the different style tabs on the palette.
Esc	The Esc key will close the palette.

The Paragraph Styles dialog closes automatically after the document is completely styled. If you need to close the dialog in the middle of processing, click the X box in the upper-right corner or press Esc. You can reopen this dialog at any time, and styling will continue with the paragraph where the cursor is currently located.

Tip

After you style a document, you can easily navigate through it by jumping from heading to heading using Word’s Document Map feature. To use Word’s Document Map feature, check the box in View > Navigation Pane.

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