| Date | NBS stylesheet template filename | Change |
| Feb 2026 | Default-schedule-stylesheet-Feb-2026.docx | Introducing a dedicated stylesheet for 'Schedules'.- Landscape orientation.
- A3 page size.
- Narrow margins.
- No end page.
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| Feb 2026 | Default-spec-stylesheet-Canada-Feb-2026.docx | Changes to more closely align the stylesheet with 'CSC PageFormat'. - Section 'Parts' changed to ALL CAPS.
- Section code and titles have been set to font 10pt to match article titles.
- The Table of Contents title is ALL CAPS.
- Table indentation increased to align with article paragraphs.
- The End page text has been removed, and the platform petal icon updated.
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| Feb 2026 | Default-spec-stylesheet-UK-AUS-Feb-2026.docx | - Cell text indentation is applied to the table styles to add some padding between the cell border and the cell text.
- Fixed a small alignment issue. Now, tables are perfectly aligned with clause rows.
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| Feb 2026 | Default-spec-stylesheet-USA-Feb-2026.docx | Changes to more closely align the stylesheet with 'CSI PageFormat'. - Section 'Parts' changed to ALL CAPS.
- Section code and titles have been set to font 10pt to match article titles.
- The Table of Contents title is ALL CAPS.
- Table indentation increased to align with article paragraphs.
- The End page text has been removed, and the platform petal icon updated.
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| July 2025 | NBS-stylesheet-USA-July-2025.docx | Removed "USA" from the cover page. This is additional to any placeholder fields and is not intended for this stylesheet. |
| May 2025 | NBS-stylesheet-Canada-May-2025.docx
NBS-stylesheet-UK-AUS-May-2025.docx
NBS-stylesheet-USA-May-2025.docx | The addition of one new list style called 'chorus-guidance-list'. This style supports publishing content sets, including the associated clause guidance.
This is not used when publishing specifications. Previous stylesheets are backwards compatible. |
| April 2025 | NBS-stylesheet-Canada-April-2025.docx
NBS-stylesheet-UK-AUS-April-2025.docx
NBS-stylesheet-USA-April-2025.docx
| The addition of one new style called 'chorus-guidance-list-item'. This style supports publishing content sets, including the associated clause guidance.
This is not used when publishing specifications. Previous stylesheets are backwards compatible. |
| November 2024 | NBS-stylesheet-Canada-November-2024.docx | - New placeholders were added for the French translation of the ‘Table of contents’, and ‘Specification was created using NBS Chorus’ text.
- Chorus styles were revised to enable automatic bookmarks in the PDF, and default Even page headers were inserted.
- Heading 1:
- Heading 2:
- Based on ‘Normal’ (was based on Heading 1).
- Added ‘Keep with Next’ and ‘Keep together’.
- Heading 3:
- Font = 10 pt, Not bold.
- Font colour = Automatic.
- SpaceAfter = 6 pt (from 0).
- Chorus-section-header:
- Chorus-clause-group-title.
- Based on ‘Heading 2’.
- Font = Bold.
- Chorus-clause-title:
- Chorus-clause-row:
- SpaceBefore = 6 pt.
- SpaceAfter = 6 pt.
- Header text:
- Removed ‘manual’ bolding (should rely on underlying style).
- Inserted default mirrored Even Page headers/footers (in case user selects odd/even).
- Layout:
- Removed the ‘different first page’ setting for all but the Cover Page and Back Page.
- Added new styles for:
- ‘chorus-cite-clause’.
- ‘chorus-clause-link’.
- ‘chorus-clause-row-bullet’.
- ‘chorus-clause-row-none’.
- ‘chorus-guidance’.
- ‘chorus-shared-by’.
- ‘chorus-suggestion’.
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| November 2024 | NBS-stylesheet-USA-November-2024.docx | - Chorus styles were revised to enable automatic bookmarks in the PDF.
- Heading 1:
- Heading 2:
- Based on ‘Normal’ (was based on Heading 1).
- Added ‘Keep with Next’ and ‘Keep together’ (they were missing).
- Heading 3:
- Font = 10 pt, Not bold.
- Font colour = Automatic.
- SpaceAfter = 6 pt (from 0).
- Chorus-section-header:
- Chorus-clause-group-title.
- Based on ‘Heading 2’.
- Font = Bold.
- Chorus-clause-title:
- Chorus-clause-row:
- SpaceBefore = 6 pt.
- SpaceAfter = 6 pt.
- Added new styles for:
- ‘chorus-cite-clause’.
- ‘chorus-clause-link’.
- ‘chorus-clause-row-bullet’.
- ‘chorus-clause-row-none’.
- ‘chorus-guidance’.
- ‘chorus-shared-by’.
- ‘chorus-suggestion’.
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| November 2024 | NBS-stylesheet-UK-AUS-November-2024.docx
| - Added new styles for:
- ‘chorus-guidance’.
- ‘chorus-shared-by’.
- ‘chorus-suggestion’.
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| July 2023 | NBS-stylesheet-Canada-July-2023.docx NBS-stylesheet-UK-AUS-July-2023.docx NBS-stylesheet-USA-July-2023.docx | We have released new stylesheets to support 'Detailed revisions'.
These stylesheets include 8 new styles necessary for the specification to be published and show 'Detailed revisions'.
Related articles: |
November 2022 | NBS-stylesheet-USA-Nov-2022.docx | We have added the 'NBS-stylesheet-USA-Nov-2022.docx' to be used with the new 'USA - USMS' content set. This is the first version. This template follows the CSI PageFormat guidance. The numbering format for rows/paragraphs has been changed from “1.1.1.1” style to “A.1. a. 1) a)”. The header shows the project code, date, project title and project location. The footer includes the section title and section code. The section includes an 'END OF SECTION' label.
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| October 2022 | NBS-stylesheet-UK-AUS-Oct-2022.docx | - The default text size for the style ‘chorus-clause-title’ has been changed from 10pt to 12pt to improve the consistency tab spacing between UK - CAWS and Uniclass-based specifications.
- New style ‘chorus-section-header-name’ added, which captures the section title. This can be used with a ‘StyleRef’ field code to display the name separate from the number.
- This enables users to isolate the “Clause/Section Title” from the “Clause/Section Code” in the published document, for example, if you want to separate those things in the headers.
- All styles are now based on ‘Normal’ style. A user could change the underlying font in Normal, and it will cascade to all the others.
- Separate Odd/Even page headers were created. If a user selected “Odd/Even” page format, the template will now display reversed header information on all Even pages (for duplex printing). These remain hidden unless a user selects the Odd/Even format.
- An “end of section” paragraph text was inserted into the template (many users didn’t realize the ‘chorus-section-end’ style could be edited).
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| September 2022 | NBS-stylesheet-Canada-Sept-2022.docx | - Default paragraph numbering has been modified to match CSC/CSI PageFormat (for Canada).
- New style ‘chorus-section-header-name’ added, which captures the section title. This can be used with a ‘StyleRef’ field code to display the name separate from the number.
- All styles are now based on ‘Normal’ style. A user could change the underlying font in Normal, and it will cascade to all the others.
- Separate Odd/Even page headers were created. If a user selected “Odd/Even” page format, the template will now display reversed header information on all Even pages (for duplex printing). These remain hidden unless a user selects the Odd/Even format.
- A single header has been configured in the Table of Contents section for the entire document (previously, there were separate headers for ToC and published sections).
- 'Table of contents Section 00 01 00' has been listed in the table of contents.
- An “end of section” paragraph text was inserted into the template (many users didn’t realize the ‘chorus-section-end’ style could be edited).
- Font colours have been removed so all text defaults to black.
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| November 2021 | NBS-stylesheet-Canada-Nov-2021.docx NBS-stylesheet-UK-AUS-Nov-2021.docx | To support tables in specifications we had added 4 table styles.
For help about adding tables to your spec please see Tables – adding, editing and copying tables.
For help about publishing tables please see the Tables styles section of 03 Customizing your stylesheet template (advanced).
For steps to copy the new table styles into your own custom stylesheets please see Copying table styles into existing stylesheets. |
| 19 January 2021 | NBS-stylesheet-Canada-02-Feb-2021.docx | Correction to the Canadian stylesheet template.
Changed the 'chorus-clause-row-list' list sequence from 1, a, i, to be 1, 1.1, 1.1.1.
There was no changes to the UK and Australian stylesheet template.
For more information about this issue and how to apply the fix to existing custom stylesheets please see the Known issue - Chorus publishes alphanumeric rows instead of numbered rows. |
| 26 October 2020 | NBS-stylesheet-UK-AUS-26-Oct-2020.docx NBS-stylesheet-Canada-26-Oct-2020.docx | First versions of the NBS stylesheet templates. |