Applying Styles

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Writer Guide

Chapter 6: Introduction To Styles

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• What Are Styles?
  • Why Use Styles?
  • Style Categories
• The Styles and Formatting Window
  • Style Selection Basics
  • Using Fill Format Mode
  • New Style from Selection, Update Style, and Load Styles Functions
    • Using New Style from Selection
    • Update Style from a selection
    • Load Styles from a template or document
  • Using the Visible Styles Filters
  • Drag-and-Drop a Selection to Create a Style
• Applying Styles
  • Applying Paragraph Styles
    • Example: Applying a Paragraph Style
  • Applying Character Styles
    • Unset/Undo Character Styles
  • Applying Frame Styles
  • Applying Page Styles
    • Example: Chapters
    • Example: Page with Special Formatting
  • Applying List Styles
    • Restarting the Numbering
• Modifying Styles
  • Changing a Style Using the Style Dialog Box
  • Examples: Modifying Paragraph Styles
    • Center Heading 1
    • Indent Heading 3
  • Using AutoUpdate
• Creating Custom Paragraph Styles: Examples
  • Creating the Poem Paragraph Style
  • Creating the PoemHeading Style
  • Sample Poem
  • Changing the Formatting of Your Styles
    • Indent Poem
  • Final result
• Copying and Moving Styles
• Deleting styles
• Assigning Styles to Shortcut Keys
• Defining a Hierarchy of Headings
  • Choosing Paragraph Styles for Outline Levels
  • Assigning Outline Levels to Other Styles
  • Setting Heading Numbering
  • Setting Up the Indentation of Headings
    • Positioning in AOO3.x and AOO4.x Documents
    • Positioning in older documents

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Applying Styles

Styles can easily be applied by means of the Styles and Formatting window. However, alternative ways exist to apply certain styles, as explained in this section.