What are Styles?
- What is a Template?
- What are Styles?
- Types of Styles in Calc
- Accessing Styles
- Applying Cell Styles
- Applying Page Styles
- Modifying Styles
- Creating New (Custom) Styles
- Copying and Moving Styles
- Deleting Styles
- Creating a Spreadsheet from a Template
- Creating a Template
- Editing a Template
- Adding Templates Using the Extension Manager
- Setting a Default Template
- Associating a Spreadsheet with a Different Template
- Organizing Templates
What are Styles?
A style is a set of formats you can apply to selected elements in a document, to control or quickly change their appearance. When you apply a style, you apply a whole group of formats simultaneously.
Many people manually format spreadsheet cells and pages without paying attention to styles. They are used to formatting documents according to physical attributes. For example, for the contents of a cell, you might specify the font family, font size, and any formatting, such as bold or italic.
Styles are logical attributes. Using styles means that you stop saying “font size 14pt, Times New Roman, bold, centered” and you start saying “Title” because you have defined the “Title” style to have those characteristics. In other words, 'styles' means shift the emphasis from what the page or other elements look like to what it is.
Styles help improve consistency in a document and can greatly speed up formatting. They also make major formatting changes easy. For example, you may decide to change the appearance of all subtotals in your spreadsheet to 10 pt. Arial instead of 8 pt. Times New Roman after you have created a 15-page spreadsheet, you can change all the subtotals in the document by simply changing the properties for the subtotal style. Page styles assist with printing, so you don’t need to define margins, headers and footers, and other printing attributes each time you print a spreadsheet.
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