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title: "Export Styles"
description: "Create reusable formatting presets for PDF and Word exports of generated documents."
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# Export Styles

Export styles are reusable formatting presets for text-based generated documents in project chat. They are selected in the generated document's **Export** dialog and are applied to its PDF or Word (.docx) export.

## Where to manage styles

Open **Settings → Export styles**. The page lists your personal styles and, when you work in an organization, styles shared with that organization.

## What an export style controls

A style can control:

- the font, size, bold, italic, color, and alignment of body text;
- the same text controls for Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3; Heading 3 also controls lower heading levels;
- page format (A4 or Letter) and page margins;
- whether citations are included; and
- whether page numbers appear in the footer.

There are no controls for a custom header, footer text, or logo. The built-in Praktik preset includes its own Praktik footer logo, but a saved style cannot add or replace a logo. The only saved footer setting is page numbers; the page-number control is shown in the generated-document Export dialog rather than as a separate control in the saved-style detail page.

## Create, edit, and delete a style

1. Select **New style**. Praktik creates a personal style with the standard starting values.
2. Open the style, give it a clear name, choose **Only me** or **Whole organization**, and set the formatting controls.
3. Turn on **Use as default** if this should be selected automatically for your exports.
4. Select **Save**.

Open a style card to edit it. Select **Delete** on the list or in the style detail to remove a style you created.

### Import typography from a Word document

The style editor includes **Import style from Word**. Upload a `.docx` example, choose one of its extracted paragraph or character styles, and apply it to body text or a heading level. You can then adjust the resulting values and save the Praktik style.

The editor's live preview is a built-in sample document. It does not preview the Word file uploaded for extraction; that file is used only to read its style information.

## Personal and organization styles

A personal style is visible only to its creator. A style marked **Whole organization** is visible to members of that organization and can be selected as an export preset.

Any member working in an active organization can create a style shared with that organization and can set it as the organization default. The creator remains the only person who can edit or delete that particular shared style. Setting a style as default replaces the existing default in the same scope.

## Defaults and precedence

A default is selected automatically when you open the generated document Export dialog.

- Your active **personal** default takes precedence over the organization's active default.
- If you have no personal default, the active organization default is used.
- If neither a personal nor an organization default is set, Praktik uses its built-in Praktik style.

Saving a style does not make it a default by itself. A non-default personal or organization style can still be chosen manually in the Export dialog.

## Select and apply a style to an export

Open a generated document in a project chat and select **Export**. In the dialog:

1. Choose the Praktik preset, a saved personal style, an organization style, or **Custom**.
2. Review the live preview and adjust the available text, page, citation, and page-number controls if needed.
3. Choose **Word** or **PDF** and export the document.

Changing controls in that dialog changes the current export. It does not overwrite the selected saved style. If you want to reuse the adjusted settings, use **Save style** to create a new personal style.

Export styles apply to the PDF and Word output of text-based generated-document exports. They do not change the source content of a generated document.

For persistent source files and project organization, see [Documents](/en/docs/documents/) and [Projects](/en/docs/projects/). For work directly in Microsoft Word, see the [Word add-in](/en/docs/word-plugin/).

Canonical: https://praktik.ai/en/docs/export-styles/