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# Introduction to Styles

### General

Styles are used to define the visual appearance of certain parts of a report document.

**Example:** A [Table Cell Style](/release36/docs/table-cell-styles) can be used to define how the cell of a table shall be styled in the output report document.

The following types of styles are supported:

- [Table Cell Style](/release36/docs/table-cell-styles)

### Style Properties

Every type of style has one or more style properties.

**Example:** A [Table Cell Style](/release36/docs/table-cell-styles) has style properties such as *Font, Font Size, Horizontal Alignment* etc.

Every style property can either be set to *Do Not Set, Keep Original, Constant*, or *Expression*.

#### Do Not Set

If you set a style property to *Do Not Set* the respective property will not be set in the report document.

**Example:** If you set the *Font* property of a [Table Cell Style](/release36/docs/table-cell-styles) to *Do Not Set* for a table used in a Microsoft Excel Report then the font of the table cells will not be set and whatever font is set in the template will be kept.

#### Keep Original

If you set a style property to *Keep Original* then the respective property will be kept as it was read from the exported [Datasource](/release36/docs/introduction-to-datasources) object.

**Example:** If you set the *Font* *Size* property of a [Table Cell Style](/release36/docs/table-cell-styles) of a table exported from a [Qlik Sense Datasource](/release36/docs/introduction-to-qliksense) object to *Keep Original*, the font size of the original datasource object will be used in the table that is written to the report document.

#### Constant

If you set a style property to *Constant* you can set a constant value for that property.

**Example:** If you set the *Font* property of a [Table Cell Style](/release36/docs/table-cell-styles) to *Custom*, you can select the font you want table cells to have.

#### Expression

If you set a style property to *Expression* you can define an [Expression](/release36/docs/introduction-to-mail-and-deploy-expressions) that returns the value to set at runtime.

**Example:** If you set the *Font* property of a [Table Cell Style](/release36/docs/table-cell-styles) to *Expression*, you can define an [Expression](/release36/docs/introduction-to-mail-and-deploy-expressions) that returns the font to set.

Depending on the type of style, additional parameters for the expression may be available.

**Example:** An [Expression](/release36/docs/introduction-to-mail-and-deploy-expressions) used for the property of a [Table Cell Style](/release36/docs/table-cell-styles) has the cell value of the cell for which the style property is being evaluated as a parameter that may be used in the expression.