About the Text Styles panel
The Text Styles panel shows you which styles are applied to the current selection and gives you the option to apply paragraph and character styles at the caret position or to selected text.
The panel also gives you options for creating new paragraph and character styles, redefining existing styles, or deleting them.
Furthermore, there are options for setting specific text styles as defaults and for importing text styles from other projects.
For more information on using text styles, see Using text styles.
Display preferences
There are several options, available from panel preferences, which allow you to change how styles are displayed in the panel:
- Show Hierarchical—styles appear nested below styles which they are Based on.
- Show Samples—when selected (default), a style's appearance mirrors what will be seen on the page. If this option is off, styles will all show as plain text.
- Sort By Type—when selected (default), paragraph styles are listed first, followed by character styles. If this option is off, styles are listed purely in alphabetical order.
Type—specifies whether the text style is a 
Options menu—provides access to a pop-up menu with creation and editing options.
