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A document is started by creating a Blueriq Studio Document element, or by using the RTF Import wizard. The contents of a document is stored in a tree of content items. Content items are the nodes in the tree representing the document. This means that content items can contain other content items. In addition, each content item can contain text or images.

A document is shown in two ways: as a tree of content items at the left hand side, and as text on the right hand side. Although this seems to be a preview pane, the view has no styling and in that sense doesn't look like the final result after rendering.

The two display forms are linked: when a node is selected in the tree on the left, the text is also selected at the right. In addition, the text of the child nodes of the content item is also selected.

The formatting of the text in a document is done by setting content styles and presentation styles to the content items. A content style determines the type of the content item, for example Paragraph, List, or Table. The presentation style determines the sub styling, for example RightAligned, TextEmphasis, or ListBullet (for a list).

Presentation styles can also be applied to pieces of text inside the content item.