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title: "Managing style guides"
date: "2019-11-01T11:09:26+00:00"
summary: "Learn to efficiently manage Site Studio style guides. Edit, disable, enable, duplicate, export, lock, delete, and reorder guides with ease. Streamline your workflow and maintain consistent design across your Drupal site."
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You can manage your existing style guides including reordering, editing, disabling selection and deleting them.

Editing a style guide
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To edit a Style guide:

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > **Style guide**
2.  Find the Style guide you want to edit
3.  Click **Edit**
4.  On the next screen, edit the Style guide
5.  Click **Save and continue**
6.  The changes you have made to your Style guide will be applied where it's used.

![4f725bf3-style-guides-edit-v5.7.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/vuxvzzgek4/web/4f725bf3-style-guides-edit-v5.7.png?v=99add61e-59f1-4047-920a-893b1d087891)

Disable a style guide
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When you disable a style guide, the tokens created by the style guide will no longer work.  
To disable a Style guide:

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > **Style guide**
2.  Find the Style guide you want to disable
3.  Click **Disable**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Disable.**

![be062ff5-style-guides-disable-v5.7.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/i1uyt9zvis/web/be062ff5-style-guides-disable-v5.7.png?v=f1485176-49e2-486c-b6b6-5fce4245c579)

Enabling a style guide
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When you enable a style guide its tokens will then start working.  
To enable a Style guide:

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > **Style guide**
2.  Find the Style guide you want to enable
3.  Click **Enable**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Enable.**

![7d386c0b-style-guides-enable-v5.7.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/qjxla0atsi/web/7d386c0b-style-guides-enable-v5.7.png?v=1c851dcf-c5d4-4c7b-8434-0a1388ccdcbd)

Duplicating style guides
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To duplicate a Style guide:

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > **Style guide**
2.  Find the Style guide you want to duplicate
3.  Click **Duplicate**
4.  Enter a new name for your Style guide in the **Title** field
5.  Edit your duplicated Style guide
6.  Click **Save and continue.**

![7718cd5c-style-guides-duplicate-v5.7.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/wrfluz92jc/web/7718cd5c-style-guides-duplicate-v5.7.png?v=776bb630-17ec-4ead-bef1-a1b5cfcea0aa)

Export a style guide
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Site Studio allows you to export a single component to a package file.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > **Style guide**
2.  Find the Style guide you want to export
3.  Click **Export package to file**, for more information on [exporting configuration](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/sync-package-export-and-import "Sync package export and import") using Site Studio sync
4.  A .yml file will then be downloaded.

![87b4b0aa-style-guides-export-v5.7.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/z4ml6idpyp/web/87b4b0aa-style-guides-export-v5.7.png?v=7bb6184c-6f92-42b7-bff7-2638e1893cf1)

Lock a style guide
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Locking a style guide will stop the base style from being overridden if changes are detected when importing using Site Studio sync.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > **Style guide**
2.  Find the Style guide you want to lock
3.  Click **Lock entity**.

![37b64939-style-guides-lock-v5.7.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/pvmrcarxsn/web/37b64939-style-guides-lock-v5.7.png?v=a5487fd9-60ec-489d-9865-4266748c337f)

Deleting a style guide
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When you delete a Style guide it will permanently remove the configuration. 

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > **Style guide**
2.  Find the Style guide you want to delete
3.  Click **Delete**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Delete**

![b5a97786-style-guides-delete-v5.7.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/s4y7cdrx05/web/b5a97786-style-guides-delete-v5.7.png?v=62338b83-ada9-48f0-900f-dd69017a7ad2)

Reordering your style guides
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The order that the Style guides are shown in the list is the order that they will appear within the themes appearance settings page.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > **Style guide**
2.  Drag your Style guides up or down to reorder them
3.  Click **Save** at the bottom of the screen to save your changes.

![afbb1f7a-style-guides-reorder-v5.7.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/9uam2oq7bi/web/afbb1f7a-style-guides-reorder-v5.7.png?v=6e5303ce-4d50-435a-85f4-5d9bc08a4fa6)