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STYLES IN LIBREOFFICE
A style is a collection of all formatting information, which
you want to save and then apply on the document Writer provides six Style categories 1.Page 2)Paragraph 3)Character 4)Frame 5)List 6)Table Creating and Updating a New Style------------ If existing styles specified by Writer do not match our requirement, then it is also possible to create a Custom Style. There are many ways to create a custom style, two of them – 1)From Selection 2) by using drag and drop .
(1) From Selection
Step 1. Select the portion of document, such as page,paragraph, character, to change its appearance.Format it as per the requirement. Step 2. From the buttons at the top of the Style menu,choose the category (paragraph, character,page, etc.) for which a new style is to be created. Step 3. Select Style action button. A list of options is displayed. Click on New Style from Selection. Step 4. In Create Style dialog window, type the name of new style, say, ‘MyStyle’.The names of existing styles are displayed in the window. Step 5. Click OK to save the name of new style. Observe that the name of the newly created style ‘MyStyle’ appears in the list of styles. 2)Using Drag and Drop method--------- Another way of creating a new style is using Drag andDrop method. It is very easy, as the desired formattedportion of text is just dragged and dropped at correct place in the Style menu. steps to create a new Style using Drag and Drop method. Step 1. Select the text from the document and change its formatting as desired. Step 2. From the buttons at the top of the Style menu,choose the desired category of style to create. Step 3. Click on the desired style under which, new style is to be created. Step 4. From the document drag the selected portion of text to the Style Menu. Step 5. Create Style dialog window appears , type the name of new style. Names of existing styles are displayed in the window. Step 6. Click OK button to save the name of new style Updating a Style------------ Instead of creating a new style for a small changes in predefined style, an existing Style can be modified as per our requirement. Updating Current Style the second option in list can be used for doing so.
Fill Format To apply a style on words present at different locations in the document, you will have to go to each word separately and apply it on each word. Writer provides a convenient way of doing it through Fill Format option. It is the second icon from right on the Style menu, This method is useful when a same style is to be applied at many places scattered in the document. Fill Format can be used to style scattered – pages, frames, tables, lists, paragraphs or characters.
