The Inspector

The Inspector is located on the trailing edge of the window on iPad and Apple Vision Pro, and at the bottom of the screen on iPhone. It contain tools for editing the style, layout, and formatting of your document.

To show the Inspector, tap or click the Inspector Button in the Toolbar

If you have a row or text selected, changes will apply to only that selection; if you do not have anything selected, changes will apply to the whole document.

Document Inspector

The Document inspector allows you to adjust the overall appearance of your document.

Zoom

The Zoom setting controls the magnification of text in the outline. Tap the and buttons to increase or decrease the zoom by ten percent.

This setting does not affect the actual size of the text in the outline; only the display size. This is useful for improving the visibility of small text, or fitting more of the outline onto the screen.

Row Status

Choose this option if you want to display Status Checkboxes along the left side of every row.

Apply Template Theme

Open the Template Picker and select a Template Theme you would like applied to the current document.

Unlike choosing a template when Creating a Document, where the document you create contains sample content from the template, applying a template to an existing outline overwrites the document’s style properties, but not any of its content.

Note that applying a template theme will overwrite both Structural Styles and Named Styles., but styles applied directly to text will not be affected.

Selection Inspector

The Selection inspector provides controls for changing the appearance of text in your document:

• Bold — Apply or remove the bold style to the selected text, row, or document.
• Italic — Apply or remove the italic style to the selected text, row, or document.
• Underline — Apply or remove the underline style to the selected text, row, or document.
• Strikethrough — Apply or remove the strikethrough style to the selected text, row, or document.

Apply Styles Inspector

The Apply Styles inspector provides controls for applying or removing Named Styles from the currently selected text, row, or document.

OmniOutliner 6 Essentials includes a selection of Template Themes, each of which includes nine Named Styles:

• Heading 1
• Heading 2
• Heading 3
• Heading 4
• Heading 5
• Heading 6
• Highlight 1
• Highlight 2
• Highlight 3

With (or without) a selection in the Outline:

• Tap a Named Style to apply it to your selection or whole document.
• Tap the Named Style again to remove it from the selection or whole document.
• Multiple styles can be applied, with styles lower in the list taking priority over those higher in the list, depending on the contents of each style.
• Tap Clear Custom Styles to remove any applied styles from your selection or whole document, reverting to only Structural Styles.

These styles are also available in the Format Menu on Mac and iPad.