[Tom Bajzek]

Is there any way to style a column in OmniOutliner, rather than applying a style to every row I enter?

[DerekM]

Yes, columns can have styles, however row styles have higher priority so it will be overridden if you have row styles set up as well. To apply a style to a column, either select the column by clicking on the column title or from the style palette in the Utility Drawer, and then set the style attributes you want.

[Tom Bajzek]

So, it seems that if I style anything other than a column, that will superseded a column style, so that practically, I can't style a column unless I accept the default for everything else.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Tom

[DerekM]

Unfortunately yes, that's pretty much true. You can modify the default styles and column styles will override those but that's about it.

[Fritz Feger]

Hi,

wouldn't it be easy to change that? I am also bothered by columns forced to have fat header style e.g. Is there any reason to give row style a higher priority than column style?

I could think of two solutions: either the most recet formatting action overrides what you have formatted before, or, better, you can either set column style to "Standard", that is to row style, or you define a column style which (of course) has the highest priority.

Best,
Fritz

[MLModel]

I too would like to -- sometimes -- have column styles override row styles. In fact, I would like it to work like style hierarchies in word processors: if all I change is the color and typeface, the style should be whatever the row style would have been for a particular cell with that column's color and typeface instead of the row's default. Furthermore, I think each document should have a toggle as to whether column styles override row styles or vice versa. There's no right answer to that one -- it depends on what you are doing. For example, I have one document with an outline of topics and a column of code examples which I would like in a monospaced font without having the rest of the document in that font.