The information that is displayed when a Look is applied to a question is controlled by the special UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper character styles that have been applied in the Look. Most of the character styles act like merge fields and define the information to be displayed. Because of the way character styles are used in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper, you cannot use character styles to apply formatting. However, you can apply formatting directly in the Looks and by using paragraph styles in the standard way.

When you apply a Look to a questionnaire item, UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper displays any text that does not have an UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper character style applied to it exactly as it appears in the Look.

These are the different types of character styles:

Use to insert information from the questionnaire definition. For example, if you want to show question short names on the paper questionnaire, enter a placeholder, such as Q#, to which you apply the mr Question Short Name insertion character style. When you apply the Look to a question, UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper replaces the placeholder with the question's short name.

For more information, see Insertion character styles.

Use to identify mark and character fields. For example, if you want the mark fields to appear as small squares that respondents can mark, insert a square symbol in the appropriate position in the answer portion of the Look, and then apply the mr Category Answer character style to it. The mr Category Answer character style identifies the square symbol as the mark field for the category. When you apply the Look to a categorical question, UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper displays the boxes in the position defined in the Look. You also use identification character styles to identify mark fields to UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add-on.

For more information, see Identification character styles.

Use to insert data entry notation to help data entry personnel enter responses correctly. For example, if you want to display card and column information for a numeric question in the paper questionnaire, type a placeholder, such as 123, in the Look and applying the mr Question Card Column character style to it. When you apply the Look to a question, UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper replaces the placeholder with the card and column information for the question.

For more information, see Data entry character styles.

Use to display text or symbols that you enter in the Look when a condition defined for the character style is true. For example, suppose some, but not all, categories have Go To information, and you want the Go To reference for these categories to be preceded by an arrow symbol. Insert the Go To reference using an insertion character style, which inserts the information only when Go To information is available. You do not want the arrow symbol to appear beside categories that do not have Go To information, so you insert an arrow symbol into the correct position in the Look and apply the mr Category Is Go To conditional display character style to it. When you apply the Look to a question, UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper displays the arrow symbol only for categories that have Go To information.

For more information, see Conditional display character styles.

Use to insert standard texts. You define the standard texts on the Character Styles tab in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper Options dialog box. For each style, you can select a condition (for example, that the question is single response) and a text to insert when the condition is true, and, optionally, a different text to insert when the condition is false. You define these texts once and can use them in as many Looks as you like; therefore, changing the wording is simple. You can also enter translations of these texts for use in multilingual studies.

For more information, see Conditional substitution character styles.