Style Organizer

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Calc Guide

Chapter 4: Styles and Templates

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• What is a Template?
• What are Styles?
• Types of Styles in Calc
  • Cell Styles
  • Page Styles
• Accessing Styles
• Applying Cell Styles
  • Using the Styles and Formatting Window
  • Using Fill Format Mode
  • Using the Apply Style List
  • Assigning Styles to Shortcut Keys
• Applying Page Styles
• Modifying Styles
  • Style Organizer
  • Cell Style Options
    • Numbers
    • Font
    • Font Effects
    • Alignment
    • Borders
    • Background
    • Cell Protection
  • Page Style Options
    • Page
    • Borders
    • Background
    • Header
    • Footer
    • Sheet
• Creating New (Custom) Styles
  • Creating a New Style Using the Style Dialog
  • Creating a New Style from a Selection
  • Creating a New Style by Dragging and Dropping
• Copying and Moving Styles
• Deleting Styles
• Creating a Spreadsheet from a Template
• Creating a Template
• Editing a Template
  • Updating a Spreadsheet from a Changed Template
• Adding Templates Using the Extension Manager
• Setting a Default Template
  • Setting a Custom Template as the Default
  • Resetting the Default Template
• Associating a Spreadsheet with a Different Template
• Organizing Templates
  • Creating a Template Folder
  • Deleting a Template Folder
  • Moving a Template
  • Deleting a Template
  • Importing a Template
  • Exporting a Template

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Style Organizer

Right-click on the name of a style in the Styles and Formatting window. Then click Modify to open a Style dialog like the one shown in Figure 102.

The Style dialog has several tabs. The Organizer tab, shown in Figure 102 for cell styles, is found in all components of AOO. It provides basic information about the style. The Organizer tab for page styles is similar to the one shown for cell styles.

Figure 102: Organizer tab of Cell Style dialog

Name

This is the style’s name. You cannot change the name of a built-in style, but you can change the name of a custom style.

Linked with

This option is only available for cell styles; page styles cannot be linked. If you link cell styles, then when you change the base style (for example, by changing the font from Times to Helvetica), all the linked styles will also change. Sometimes, this is exactly what you want; other times, you do not want the changes to apply to all the linked styles. It pays to plan ahead.
For example, you can make a new style called red, in which the only change you want to make is for the cell text to be red. To ensure that the rest of the text characteristics are the same as the default style, you can link red with default. Then, any changes you make to default will be automatically applied to red.

Category

In Calc, the only option in this drop-down box is Custom styles.