Formatting in RixDocs works the way you expect from a desktop word processor: pick text, apply a style, keep writing. The difference is that everything is stored in the .docx model itself, so a file saved in RixDocs looks identical when it reaches someone using Word. This guide covers fonts, styles, lists and the multilingual type support.
Fonts, including CJK, Arabic and Korean
The font picker on the Home tab lists a bundled library, so documents render consistently even on a clean machine with no fonts installed. Coverage includes:
- Latin fonts for everyday documents in English and European languages.
- CJK fonts for Chinese and Japanese text, with correct glyph rendering.
- Arabic fonts with right-to-left shaping.
- Korean fonts for Hangul.
When a paragraph mixes scripts — an English sentence with an Arabic quote, for example — RixDocs falls back across the bundled set automatically, so you do not manage per-script fonts by hand. Font size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, subscript and superscript all sit in the same Home tab cluster, with keyboard shortcuts for the common ones.
Heading styles and the Normal style
Every paragraph carries one style. Normal is the body default; Heading 1 through Heading 3 build the outline of the document:
| Style | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Normal | Body paragraphs |
| Heading 1 | Chapter or section titles, the top of the outline |
| Heading 2 | Subsections inside a Heading 1 block |
| Heading 3 | Finer divisions, list-level headers |
Apply a style
- Click inside the paragraph, or select several.
- Open the style list on the Home tab.
- Choose the style — the paragraph reformats instantly.
Headings are not just cosmetic. The Outline view and the navigation pane read Heading 1 to 3 to build a clickable document map, and a table of contents inserted from the References tab is generated from these same styles. Keep headings consistent and the whole document navigates itself.
Emphasis presets
Alongside the standard styles, RixDocs offers emphasis presets — one-click treatments for quotes, callouts, warnings and highlighted text. Apply one from the style area and it colors or frames the paragraph without you touching manual shading. Because presets are styles rather than ad-hoc formatting, they update uniformly if you restyle later.
Lists and custom numbering
Bulleted and numbered lists live on the Home tab:
- Type your items, one per paragraph.
- Select them and click the bullet or numbering button.
- Press Tab at the start of an item to nest it a level deeper; Shift+Tab moves it back.
For numbered lists, open the numbering options to change the format:
- Decimal — 1, 2, 3 for procedures and instructions.
- Letters — a, b, c or A, B, C for annexes and sub-clauses.
- Roman numerals — I, II, III for legal and formal documents.
- Custom start values, so a list can continue at 5 instead of restarting at 1.
Numbered lists renumber automatically when you insert, delete or reorder items, which is why they beat typing numbers by hand in any document that will be revised.
Paragraph controls
Line spacing, indentation, alignment and spacing-before and spacing-after are on the Home ribbon. Two habits worth adopting: set spacing-after on Normal instead of pressing Enter twice, and use indentation rather than spaces for block quotes. Both keep the .docx clean and make later restyling a one-click job.
Paste from Markdown or other editors
RixDocs converts pasted Markdown — headings, bold, italics, lists, links — into real styled text on paste. When you copy from a web page, the paste keeps only meaningful formatting instead of dragging in stray fonts and colors. The result is a document that stays consistent no matter where the raw text came from.
What to explore next
- Tables guide for structured data inside documents.
- Headers, footers and page setup for margins, columns and page numbers.
- DOCX compatibility to see how formatting round-trips to Word.