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Disabling Styles

You can prevent certain styles from being shown in the Stylesheet Editor and in the Flare interface. This is a good feature if you use only some of the styles provided in a style sheet. Rather than being overwhelmed with the sight of all styles in the style sheet, you can ensure that you see only the styles that you tend to use in your project. Those styles will not be removed from the style sheet; they will simply be hidden until you enable them.

Example

How to disable styles

Open the style sheet that you want to modify.
In the local toolbar, click the Options button and select Disable Styles.

The Disable Styles dialog opens.
On the right side of the dialog, select the styles that you want to disable. You can hold down the SHIFT or CTRL key and click, selecting a range of styles or many individual styles not next to each other.
Click .

The selected styles are moved to the left side of the dialog
Click OK.

The style classes are removed from view in the style sheet.

Warning Even if you have some styles that you never modify, you may want to avoid disabling them in your style sheet. The reason for this is that disabling a style in a style sheet also disables its use in the rest of the interface. For example, let's say that you have inserted several pictures in your project. When you do this, an <img> tag is used. Therefore, although you may never edit the style properties for the <img> tag, you still require it in order to insert images in the future. Otherwise, features such as the Insert>Picture option become disabled in the interface. The bottom line is that you should use caution when disabling styles, making sure that you truly will not need to use those styles.