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Create a Character Style by clicking CREATE STYLE in the Style menu dropdown and
checking the CHARACTER STYLE option from the dialog as you create a new text style.
See Creating new Styles (on page 267) for more info.

Paragraph styles can define all text attributes even bulleted/numbered list properties.
Character styles can only define text attributes that can be applied to individual
characters, such as text color, font size, font weight, etc.

List Styles
You can also apply Styles to bulleted and numbered lists. The style will take on all the
attributes of the bullet or numbered list. Once you have applied a style to a list a "."
appears in the Style menu to indicate that it is a List Style and to enable you to
distinguish it from a Paragraph or a Character style.

To make a list style, first create a list and customize it using the LIST PROPERTIES (on
page 260) dialog. Then place the text caret in the list, or select part of the list, and
choose CREATE STYLE … from the text styles dropdown list. Choose a name for your list
style and click ok.

List styles include all the list settings you see in the LIST PROPERTIES dialog, from indents
to bullet symbols and colors. Each level within a list can have different settings and these
are also all recorded in the list style. The example below has only 2 levels of list, but you
can have as many levels as you like.

To update a list style, simply modify a list that uses the style and then use the UPDATE
option in the styles list, the same way you update ordinary Paragraph styles. The list will
update whatever list level the text cursor is placed in - or all selected levels if you have
more than one level selected - with the UPDATE option reflecting your choice.

Note: Graphical lists (where you can use any graphical object as the bullet or number)
are not yet supported with list styles.

Next paragraph style

This is one of the settings for a text style - look at the list's PROPERTIES… option in the
style menu.