So far as I know, Nisus New File refers only to a New file which you create on your Mac.

NNF has no effect on, and no relation to, imported or copied files.

I suspect you must do your formatting.

I also doubt if a Mail.app file creates Character Styles or Note Styles.

Try sending yourself a Mail message in RFT format, i.e. not just text format, and see what happens.

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On 28/04/2010, at 9:48 PM, Þorvarður Davíðsson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> When I open a .rtf file or a text file in NWP that I did not create myself (files I downloaded from the Internet, for example) what will then determine the format of the file and what Nisus styles will I have in it?
> 
> Remember? There used to be a file in Nisus Classic called “Nisus Text Stationery” whose sole purpose was to determine the format and styles of such files and this template could be easily edited. Now that I have not seen any such template or stationery file in NWP I wonder whether Nisus users are basically not able to influence this process anymore, i.e. how the file will look like and which styles it will have when they open it for the first time.
> 
> I have just saved a mail from Apple Mail in Richt Text Format (.rtf) to the desktop now. When I open it in NWP it has no Character Styles and no Note Styles; List Styles are Bullet List, Headings, Number List and Tiered List, and Paragraph Styles are Footer, Header and – strange enough – a styled called “Normal_Icel” which seems to be a style I created for Nisus New File.
> 
> How did my style get in there? And why are the other styles in my Nisus New File *not* there???
> 
> 
> 
> Þorvarður
> OS X 10.4.11
> Power Mac G4