# Styling pane
In the styling pane, the custom styling of the entire **document** **or binder** (i.e., not a specific clause) can be adapted or removed.
Using this pane, you can quickly apply custom stylings, either on the basis of a predefined styling template, or using some completely customised settting.
For example, the following document is currently shown in in its base state, without any custom styles:
If you then apply one of the style templates that were predefined by the customer’s administrator (in casu the *Colorful* template), the result will be as follows, with a single click of a button.
You can then further customise the styling by clicking on the button. Please refer to the [styling section](https://help.clause9.com/styling) for more information about the actual contents of all those styles.
{% hint style="info" %}
Please note that you are applying *custom* styling to a document, which you should ideally try to minimise to ensure uniformity across your entire office.
Also be aware that once you apply a style template to a document, it will not automatically update once the style template is applied. For example, assume you have a style template “MyStyle” that assigns Times New Roman/16 points/blue to headings at the first level. If you assign MyStyle to a certain document, then that document will copy the layout features of MyStyle (*in casu* Times New Roman as a font, 16 points as the size, and blue as the color). If then, later on, you happen to change MyStyle to Arial/14 points/red, then the document in question will *not* be updated, and will continue to use the old Times New Roman/16 points/blue.
In other words, those style templates are merely storage places where layout features are bundled together and simultaneously applied. Once you apply a certain style template to a document, the document will merely *copy* the layout features, and completely “forget” that those features once emanated from a certain style template.
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button. Please refer to the [styling section](https://help.clause9.com/styling) for more information about the actual contents of all those styles.
{% hint style="info" %}
Please note that you are applying *custom* styling to a document, which you should ideally try to minimise to ensure uniformity across your entire office.
Also be aware that once you apply a style template to a document, it will not automatically update once the style template is applied. For example, assume you have a style template “MyStyle” that assigns Times New Roman/16 points/blue to headings at the first level. If you assign MyStyle to a certain document, then that document will copy the layout features of MyStyle (*in casu* Times New Roman as a font, 16 points as the size, and blue as the color). If then, later on, you happen to change MyStyle to Arial/14 points/red, then the document in question will *not* be updated, and will continue to use the old Times New Roman/16 points/blue.
In other words, those style templates are merely storage places where layout features are bundled together and simultaneously applied. Once you apply a certain style template to a document, the document will merely *copy* the layout features, and completely “forget” that those features once emanated from a certain style template.
{% endhint %}