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1.

Select Text for the Style

When you want to apply a predefined style to text, first select the text. Most of the time you'll select a paragraph to format with a style, so if nonprinting characters are showing, be sure to include the paragraph mark when you select the text if you want the style to apply to the entire paragraph. The format of the text will completely change depending on which style you apply, but the text itself will not change.

2.

Display the Styles and Formatting Window

Press

F11 to display the

Styles and Formatting window. If you don't see paragraph styles (assuming you're adding a style to a paragraph), click the

Paragraph Styles button in the window's upper-left corner. The style names will then appear that you can apply to your selected paragraph text.

NOTE

The

Styles and Formatting window provides styles for characters, frames, pages, and numbered lists in addition to paragraph styles.

3.

Select a Style

In the

Styles and Formatting window, double-click the style that you want to apply. Depending on the arrangement of your screen and windows, you can usually see the style immediately applied to your selected text. If you want to try a different style, double-click another in the list. Feel free to keep the

Styles and Formatting window open.

TIP

You can drag and drop a text selection directly into the

Styles and Formatting window to create a new paragraph style or character style.

4.

Select Formatted Text

You can easily add your own styles to the collection Writer provides. You add styles by example. In other words, you format text to match a style you want to create and then tell Writer to create a new style based on that formatted text.

To add a new paragraph style, for example, format and then select an entire paragraph (including its paragraph symbol if nonprinting characters are showing). Press

F11 to display the

Styles and Formatting window if it's not currently showing.

5.

Type a New Style Name

Click the

New Styles button (the first button from the right at the top of the

Styles and Formatting window) and then click

New Style from Selection in the submenu that opens. Writer displays the

Create Style dialog box.

Type a name for the style (one that does not already exist in the

Styles and Formatting windowunless you want to replace one). When you click

OK , Writer creates the new style based on your selected text. The next time you select text and then select your new style, Writer applies the new style's formatting to the text.

The other two options in the

New Style from Selection submenu will become more useful to you as you work more with styles. If you previously created a style but want to make changes to it, modify the formatting of the text, and then follow this step and click the

Update Style option in the submenu; the style is updated based on the current text selection. If you want to use styles from another document, click the

Load Style option in the submenu and use the resulting dialog box to import styles from another document.