Create and modify Map Styles

You can save the style settings for the current map to a Style file (.mmas) that you can re-use. The Style file contains the default format settings for all objects on the map. It does not contain any of the content. You can change the default style settings settings as you format the map.

The Map Style contains settings for:

• Central topic, main topics and subtopics (by level)

• Org-chart topics and their subtopics

• Callout topics and their subtopics

• Floating topics and their subtopics

• Floating Org-Chart topics and their subtopics

• Boundaries

• Relationships

• Map background

• Notes (the default font)

You can apply a style to the current map at any time.

• Create a Map Style from the current map's default style settings
• Modify an existing Map Style

Create a Style from the current map's default style settings

You can save the current map's Sthle to the folder used by the organizer, or to a different location.

1. Adjust the map's default style settings to your liking.

2. On the Home tab, click the Map Style arrow, and then click Add Map Style.

3. The default location for the Style file is the folder used by the Styles Organizer, but you can save it in a different location.

• The Style you save will not appear in the Organizer unless you save it in the default location.
  Make a note of this location in case you want to add the Style to the New Map dialog (it will be shown whenever you create a new map), apply this style to another map from the file, add it to the Organizer, or send it to another user.

• Two other methods for saving a Style file:
  
  Use the File tab Save & Send command: click Change File Type, click MindManager Map Style, choose a location for the Style file and then click Save.
  
  Create Map Styles and manage them from the Organizer.

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You can use the Save & Send method to save a Style to a workspace.

Modify an existing Map Style

When you open an existing Map Style, it is automatically displayed in Modify Style view, where you can make changes to the style's format settings.

• Click the File tab, click New, and locate the style under Map Styles.

• If the style appears there, right-click it, and then click Modify.

• If the style does not appear there:
  Click Open, and in the Files of Type list select Mindjet MindManager Styles.
  Navigate to the style you want to modify, and then click Open.

The style opens in a special view that lets you change the format settings of the style. See Use Modify Style view for more information on using this view.

• You can also modify Map Styles and manage them from the Organizer.

See also:

Create a new map

Use Map Styles

Use the Map Styles Organizer