Using AutoUpdate

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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Using AutoUpdate

On the Organizer page of the Paragraph Style dialog box there's a checkbox labeled AutoUpdate (Figure 19). It is intended for paragraph and frame styles only. If this checkbox is selected, then AOO will apply, to the style itself, any modification made manually to a paragraph formatted with that style.

If you are in the habit of manually overriding styles in your document, be sure that AutoUpdate is not enabled, or you will suddenly find whole sections of your document reformatting unexpectedly.

Figure 19: The Organizer page of the Paragraph Style dialog box