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title: "How Do I Use the Styles Function in Lasernet? - Lasernet FAQs"
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# How Do I Use Styles in Lasernet?

Lasernet can manipulate fonts and text to create flexible and dynamic outputs; this functionality is called Styles.

Styles are similar to the Heading and Font Styles found in Microsoft Word and Publisher.

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A style is a group of text settings that can be stored, reused, and modified centrally (globally or locally) and applied to output rearranges across forms. Instead of having to control and set each output rearrange separately, as was necessary in previous versions, styles can be used to speed up the design process whilst ensuring consistency across forms.

## Create Styles

Styles can only be accessed from within the Form Editor. The **Styles** tab is located on the toolbar.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (8)(12).png)

To create a style, follow these steps:

1. With an output rearrange selected, click the **Styles** option on the toolbar, then select **New Style from Selection...**

This opens up the **Style Profile** properties where the following fields need to be specified: **Profile Name**, **Scope** (**Local** or **Global**, which we will cover later), **Font**, **Size**, and **Color**. In this first example, we will create a bold header that can be applied to page titles using certain settings:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (9)(11).png)

1. Create two more local styles for **Subheading** and **Body** text so they look similar to those shown in the image to get a feel for the options available:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (10)(11).png)

If you hover over the style, you can see a breakdown of the main settings. In this example, many different sizes and styles of fonts are shown in the output, which makes the form look unprofessional and haphazard:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (11)(10).png)

By applying the newly created style to the elements on the form, it is possible to standardize it quickly

1. Highlight the output and select the desired style from the dropdown. In this example, the **Body** style is applied to the **Customer Name**, **Account Number**, **Statement Date**, **Balance**, and **Billing Address**. The output is now consistent and much neater.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (12)(10).png)

From this point forward, additional form creation work can be streamlined by reusing the saved styles to quickly standardize the output.

## Global and Local Styles

There are two different types of styles to create and manage:

**Global**: Global styles are accessible (usable) in any form throughout the build.

**Local**: Local styles are only accessible (usable) within the particular Form it was created in

With an output rearrange selected, select **Styles** and click **New Style from Selection...** This opens up the **Style Profile** properties where you can create a **Global** style.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (13)(10).png)

Global styles are useful if you have lots of different Statement variants to create, but you still need a consistent font style across all of them. The example below shows the new global style being applied to the table column headers:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (14)(10).png)

Global styles are recognizable by the globe icon next to them:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (15)(8).png)

When another form is opened within the same build configuration, the option of applying this global style is available. To make changes to any style, right-click it and select **Edit** to bring up the **Properties** window.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (16)(8).png)

When you make changes to a global style, remember that this will change all instances where the style is in use across all forms. So be very careful when making these changes. Global styles also have the benefit of being able to be exported and imported like other objects. Lasernet styles also enable you to capture the settings from an existing text output and use it to update or create a new style, which you can then reuse (either locally or globally).

To create a new style, with the output rearrange selected, right-click and choose **New Style From Selection...** and the style will then be available in the **Styles** menu.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (17)(9).png)

To update an existing style, right-click a style from the **Style** menu and click **Update to match selection** with the desired output.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image (18)(10).png)

## Shape Styles

To complement the Text styles, it is also possible to create Shape styles. To read more about using shapes, refer to [this article](/v1/docs/lasernet-shape-tool-and-the-benefits-of-overlay-free-forms).

Shape styles work in a very similar way to Text styles and can also be made available either locally or globally. To create a Shape style, select a shape on the output, open **Styles**, and click **New Style from Selection** to open the properties. The properties available are **Scope**, **Fill**, **Line Color,** **Style**, and **Width**. They are applied in the same way as Text styles, by selecting the **Style** from the drop-down, with the desired shape selected in the output.