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{fb1000000Everything about Computer Concepts just oozes quality, and Impression Style is no exception. When you open the Style package, you will find a mammoth heap of manuals and a pile of discs, all of which makes you glad you chose to spend your hard earned cash.
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Once you've coped with installing Style to your hard disc, using the very nice supplied install program, you're left with a directory full of programs which, when put together, form a complete _Desktop Publishing_"Features.AcornPub" System. You get everything, from a table editor, to a hyper-text spelling checker and thesaurus.

Whenever you load Style you get a large banner, with your name on and the Style logo. You're then given a blank page, much like most word processors around today, on which to do your work.

Along the top of the page, there's a rather useful toolbar. This toolbar gives you access to all of the important tools, such as speller, the clipboard, frame tools, and the usual formatting tools. My only complaint about the toolbar is that unless you're in a large screen mode, such as mode 31, some of the icons disappear off the edge of the screen.

Although Style is called a 'Document Processor', it is in fact a full featured Desktop Publishing Package, with everything you'd expect, from movable frames to master pages (or templates) and loads of formatting tools. As an added bonus, Style is an OLE server application. In plain English, this means that you can create a file, in one of the supplied applications, and dump it into Style. It then becomes a normal object, like a picture, but that isn't the end of it. To illustrate this, imagine you've created a table using TableMate, you dump it into Style, and move it around a bit. Later, when you've thought about it, the table is actually wrong, so you need to edit it. Normally this would mean finding the original file, and changing it, then putting it back again. However Style will, when asked to, call the application the object was created in and load up the file for you, then when you quit, the file will be automatically updated by Style. This OLE can be used on an kind of file, but Style can only display a certain number of them.
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On the writing side of things, Style is not lacking in features for you. As with previous versions of Impression, a style can be defined, and applied to a large amount of text. This would ordinarily seem a little pointless, but when you decided to change the size of the base font in a document, you don't really want to select everything. Simply change the style for the base text, and Style will do the rest for you.

Style has its own built in speller which is fine for most jobs. You just have to click on the speller icon on the toolbar, and you can sit back, and check spellings. One feature which many Acorn 'Document Processors' lack it a thesaurus. Style is no longer one of these. Included in your bundle of bits in WordWorks, the Dictionary and Thesaurus, which is hyper-linked. WordWorks can take a word from Style, look it up,and return something different, so in essence this too is an OLE application. Naturally, WordWorks can be used with other Acorn applications, but not with such flexibility.

Style has a whole heap of features, far too many for me to talk about here, but it is also one of the easiest to use DTP packages I've seen. Part of the reason for this is the huge heap of manuals you get, one for each of the applications supplied. This includes some tutorials, but in my opinion not enough. There is
