Copying and Moving 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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Copying and Moving Styles

Styles are part of a document's properties. Therefore changes made to a style, or new styles you create, are only available within the document to which they belong. Styles always stay with a document. So, for example, if you e-mail a document to another person, the styles go with it.

If you want to reuse modified or new styles in other documents, you need either to:

• save the styles in a template (see Chapter 10), or
• copy the styles into the document in which you want to use them.

You can copy or move styles from one template or document to another in two ways:

• Using the Template Management dialog box.
• Loading styles from a template or document.

To copy or move styles using the Template Management dialog box:

1. Click File → Templates → Organize.
2. At the bottom of the Template Management dialog box, choose either Templates or Documents, as needed. For example, if you are copying styles between two documents, both entries should say Documents.

Figure 24: Choosing to copy styles from a document, not a template

3. To load styles from a file, click the  File…  button. When you return to this window, both lists show the selected file, and all the currently open documents.
4. Double-click on the name of the template or document and then double-click the Styles icon to show the list of individual styles.
5. To copy a style, hold down the  Control  key and drag the name of the style from one list to the other.
6. Repeat for each style you want to copy or move. When you're finished, click  Close .

Figure 25: Copying a style from one document to another

If you do not hold down the  Control  key when dragging, the style will be physically moved from one list to the other. In other words, the style will be deleted from the list you are dragging it from.