Deleting 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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Deleting styles

It is not possible to delete AOO’s predefined styles from a document or template, even if they are not in use. However, custom styles can be deleted.

To delete an unwanted style, right-click on it in the Styles and Formatting window and choose Delete. If the style is in use, the message shown in Figure 26 appears.

Figure 26: Deleting an applied style

Make sure the style is not in use before deletion. Otherwise, all objects with that style will return to the Default style and retain their formatting as manual formatting. This can be very problematic in a long document.

If an unwanted style is in use, use Find & Replace to replace it with a substitute style before deleting it.

If the style is not in use, the message shown in Figure 27 appears.

Figure 27: Deleting a style that is not in use