Reports in StoryLines allow you to view your project as a linear document as you make edits, and they are also used to export your project to a variety of formats (see Exporting Files in StoryLines).
StoryLines provides a number of report styles, to which you can add your own. To provide maximum flexibility, StoryLines provides you with two main ways of customizing a report style.
Paragraph styles allow you to change presentational aspects of a report's formatting, such as emboldening section headings or indenting dialogue as required.
Element styles allow you to switch parts of the report on or off, or to change some aspect of formatting such as specifying header and footer text.
These two types of style are covered in depth below. See also Report Style Editor Dialog for the mechanics of editing, adding and deleting report styles.
Report styles are stored in the ReportStyles folder where StoryLines is installed, as .stt files. If StoryLines does not find any .stt files it will create (and if possible, save) a style called Default.