Alventis has rather intricate support for Styles, which is so much broader than just text styles in Memos, that we'll have to save this discussion for a chapter on Styles. What we'll do here is "scratch the surface" by mentioning just the few aspects of Styles that apply to Memos.

Alventis supports Named Styles. Their management is performed in the Style Explorer, which is fully described elsewhere. For the time being, let's just accept the fact that some styles can be named in some mysterious way.

Named styles (as well as some unnamed styles, but again, let's not get into this here) appear in the Style Picker combo box.

You can select a style and apply it to any text in a Memo just like you would apply it using the Font InstaButton or any other.

While working with your Memos, you "create" text styles using such InstaButtons as: Font, QuickStyle, Font and/or Background Colors, as well as the Bold/Italic/Underline/Strikeout buttons. Automatically adding them all to the Style Picker would very quickly make its list of styles extremely long, unmanageable, and thus not very useful. Which is why you have to explicitly add a style you want to the Style Picker by Shift-clicking it. Just place the cursor on the text stylized with the style you like, and Shift-click on the Picker.

And that's really all there is to it – as far as Memos are concerned. To give styles names and make them appear in the Style Picker permanently, you'll have to refer to the chapter on the Style Explorer.