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Create and edit a Word Style Sheet document

For Word output, you can define the text styles for a document using the Word Style Sheet document. You can create and edit this document in KCM Designer, using Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word 2016 or later is required.

  1. Navigate to Corporate Design or to the Brand or Document Type folder you are working on.
    • To create a new Word Style Sheet document, click Create Word Style Sheet and then click New Style Sheet in the New pane on the right.

      The new object appears in the selected folder.

  2. Click the Word Style Sheet document to edit and click Edit in the View and Edit pane on the right.
  3. Microsoft Word opens. You can now edit the formatting styles that are added to the Word Style Sheet document.
    For example, to format the basic text font, the item might be named ITP_normal.

    Make the necessary changes and click OK.

    For the list of available ITP_ styles as well as for the information on defining the ITP_ custom styles, see the section "Manage Text Blocks styles" in the Kofax Communications Manager Template Scripting Language Developer's Guide.
  4. Close Microsoft Word and save the changes when prompted to do so.
    To view the changes you have applied, see Test an object. Changes are applied to every template that uses this Word Style Sheet document. To apply a Word Style Sheet document to a template, use the DOCUMENTSTYLE script command. For more information, see the Kofax Communications Manager Template Scripting Language Developer's Guide.

Alternatively, you can download the Word Style Sheet object to your computer to edit it in the editor of your choice and then upload it back to KCM Designer. To do so, click the object and then click Download for editing locally in the View and Edit pane on the right. Click Just download or click Lock and download to lock the object for other users. When you finish editing the object in your editor, save it and then click Upload locally edited file in KCM Designer to upload the file from your computer.

The maximum supported size of the uploaded file is 40 MB.

Format a table

You can use Word Style Sheet documents to create a custom table style, or format the ITP_table style. The steps below describe how to create a new table style to use in the documents.

ITP_table styles are only applied to tables in standard Text Blocks. Any other table style added to Word Style Sheet documents can only be used in a Rich Text Block.

  1. Navigate to Corporate Design or find the Brand or Document Type folder you are working on.
  2. Click Word Style Sheet, select the file to format, and click Edit in the View and Edit pane on the right.

    Microsoft Word opens. You can preview the formatting styles.

  3. Place the cursor in the blank space at the end of the document, click the Insert tab in Microsoft Word, and then click Insert Table.
  4. Define the number of columns and rows and click OK.
    The table appears where you placed the cursor.
  5. Navigate to Table Tools > Design >Table Styles.

    If this tab is not available, click the table you inserted and the Table Tools tab will appear.

  6. Click the small arrow located in the lower right corner to see more options.
  7. Click New Table Style.
    The Create New Style from Formatting window appears.
  8. Enter a name for the style in accordance with the names of the styles previewed in the document.
    Example ITP_table
  9. Make necessary changes and click OK.
    The new style appears in the Table Styles section.
  10. Click the new style to apply to your table.
  11. Close the Microsoft Word document and save the changes when prompted to do so.