Text and elements in Stylo can be copied, cut, and pasted. The function is activated using the following keyboard commands:

By pressing Shift + Return, a manual line break ("soft return") can now be created, i.e., a line break can be forced within a paragraph. If you want to force a line break to a block, use the key combination Ctrl + Return.

In the administration of Stylo, the calling logic can be reversed.

With the mouse: When you position the mouse over the border of boxes, the "cross cursor" appears. A click with the left mouse button then selects the box. A double-click in the text activates the text cursor.

Drawing a lasso with the mouse: You can also draw a lasso with the mouse to select objects. If there are objects in the background that could potentially be moved by the lasso (background images), you can simplify the lasso selection by holding down the Ctrl and Shift keys while dragging. In the administration of Stylo, it can be determined whether the lasso selection should encompass all objects or only touch them.

With the keyboard: Graphic objects can be selected using the control key. By holding down the Ctrl key, you can add more objects to the selection.

Using the arrow keys on the keyboard, you can jump from one text frame to the next adjacent text frame above or below.

If the insertion point is in the last line of a text frame (or text flow), you can jump to the next (lower) text frame using the "Down Arrow" key. If the insertion point is positioned in the first line of a text frame, you can switch to the previous (upper) text frame using the "Up Arrow" key.

If there is a link in the current text frame via vertical alignment, the other text blocks of the vertical alignment group are considered when determining the next or previous text frame; otherwise, the determination is based on coordinates.

In Stylo, when moving and resizing using the mouse, a snap grid can be used. There are two different types of snap grids available.

The first type is, in the broadest sense, a (configurable) column and row grid. The horizontal grid is defined in the configuration (administration interface) by the position and type of each vertical grid line. The type (Left, Right, All) of the grid line determines whether a vertical line acts as a grid line only when (horizontally) moving an object to the left, only when moving to the right, or generally as a grid line.

The vertical grid is defined in the configuration by the default font size and the default line spacing. When (vertically) moving an object upwards, it snaps directly to a line. When (vertically) moving an object downwards, it snaps to a line position minus one standard line spacing. This way, text frames can be aligned precisely to the line.

Additionally, in the configuration, the size of the area in which snapping should occur, as well as the colors for the grid lines, can be defined.

The column grid can be activated through the "Grid" function in the display menu.

The second type is an automatic snap grid, generated from the horizontal and vertical boundary lines of all existing objects (except the selected object). This allows you to easily align the currently selected object with the other objects. In addition to the lines of the objects, automatic snap grid lines are placed at the document boundary and at the distances defined in the object properties of the display (margins).

The automatic snap grid is also activated through the display menu.

To create guidelines, you must first activate the ruler in the toolbar. The visibility of the guidelines can be toggled on or off through the display menu.

From the ruler, horizontal and vertical guidelines can then be drawn. Clicking the white space in the upper left corner simultaneously creates horizontal and vertical guidelines.

At that point, the current position is also displayed. The unit of measurement is determined through the administration of Stylo. There, you can also specify the color with which the guideline is drawn.

The guideline is magnetic, and objects start snapping to it when you move the objects in the direction of the line.

If you want to delete a guideline, you can either select and delete it or drag it back into the ruler area.

Through the context menu, you can access the properties of the guideline.

Position: Here, you can set the x or y axis of the line.

Magnetic: Guidelines are always magnetic by default. This can be turned off at this point.

Color: In the administration of Stylo, the default guideline color is set. Here, you can change it for individual guidelines.

In the Stylo administration, you can specify what color a guideline should have by default and in which unit of measurement the position is displayed during movement.