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Chapter 1 Introduction to Styles Notes

The document provides an overview of styles in LibreOffice Writer, detailing their definition, categories, and application methods. It explains how to create, modify, and load styles, emphasizing the importance of styles in focusing on content rather than appearance. Key style categories include Page, Paragraph, Character, Frame, List, and Table styles, each serving specific formatting purposes.

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Styles Notes

The document provides an overview of styles in LibreOffice Writer, detailing their definition, categories, and application methods. It explains how to create, modify, and load styles, emphasizing the importance of styles in focusing on content rather than appearance. Key style categories include Page, Paragraph, Character, Frame, List, and Table styles, each serving specific formatting purposes.

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UNIT -1

DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION ( ADVANCED)USING LIBREOFFICE WRITER


Chapter -1 : Introduction to Styles (notes)
Style :
A style is a collection of all formatting information, which you want to save and then apply on the document.
For example, following details of “Font“ can be stored as a style with the name “Heading Style“.
➢ Size – 12
➢ Name – Bookman old Style
➢ Weight - Bold
➢ Alignment – Left
Now we can apply Heading Style to all Heading of the document .
NOTE : Style allows us to shift our focus from appearance of the document to the content of the document

Style Categories
Libre Office Writer provide six style categories
➢ Page Style : It includes basic page layout like page size , its margin , placement of header and
footer , footnote , boarders and background
➢ Paragraph Style : Paragraph formatting includes tab stops , text alignment, line spacing
➢ Character Style :This style is used to work on block of letters that is word(s) in the paragraph. character
style allows changing the text colour , text size , highlighting text and emphasising it .
➢ Frames Style : Frames are like container, which can hold text, graphics and lists. Therefore, applying
styles allows to format a frame by specifying its size , position , borders and how the text is placed
around the picture
➢ List Style : It can be used to style lists by putting numbering or bullets of a different kind or specifying
numeric format
➢ Table Style : Table style category allows to format a table by adding border. Using different text or
borders colour(s) aligning text inside the table having different patterns of text colours.

Styles and Formatting


Writer provides many options and tools to style or format or format a document. Styles in Writer, can be accessed
by any of the following methods.
1. Click Style option from Menu bar and click Manage Style
2. Using Style Drop Down list box, from the Toolbar. If the Toolbar is not visible the, click on View ->Toolbar,
and enable Formatting/Formatting(Styles)”.
3. Using Sidebar menu. On the Sidebar, Clicking on Styles icon, displays the Style sub-menu.
4. Using keyboard shortcut – F11 function key.

Style window
This window can be opened by using any of the methods given above.

1. First six icons allow to select the category of style, such as Paragraph Style, Character Style, Page Style, Frame
Style, Page Style, List Style and Table Style to work on.
2. From the bottom of the window selecting Show Preview option displays its style along with the name in the list.
3. At the bottom of Style window, there is a Drop Down list, to select the filter for the style list to be displayed above.
By default, this filter is set to Hierarchical.

Steps to apply Style in a document.


1.Select the text to be formatted.
2.Choose appropriate style by clicking the button from the top of the Styles bar.
3. A list of styles for that category appears. Double click on the desired style to apply to the selected text.
Apply Style using Fill Format mode
To apply a style on words, present at different locations in the document, we can use Fill Format mode. It is the second
icon from right on the Style window. Steps to apply style using Fill Format option is given below:

1. Open the document to be styled.


2. Open the Style window and select the desired style category and then desired style.
3. Select Fill Format button
4. To apply the selected style, take the mouse pointer to desired location and click.

NOTE: To quit Fill Format option, click the Fill Format button again or press the Esc key.

Creating a New(Custom) Style


There are two ways to create a custom style

A. From Selection
Steps
1. Select the portion of document, such as page, paragraph, character, to change its appearance.
2. Choose the category(paragraph, character, page, etc) from Style menu for which a new style is to be created.
3. Select Style action button and then click on New Style from Selection.
4. In Create Style dialog window, type the name of new style (eg: Mystyle).
5. Click OK to save the name of new style.
B. Using Drag and Drop
Steps
1. Select the text from the document and change its formatting as desired.
2. Choose the desired style from Style window under which, new style is to be created.
3. Now drag the selected portion of text to the Style Menu.
4. Create Style dialog window appears.
5. Type name of new style and press OK button to save.

NOTE:

1. Drag and Drop method cannot be used to create a Page Style.


2. While dragging the text cursor shape changes.

Updating(Modifying) a New(Custom) or Pre-defined Styles


Instead of creating a new style for a small change in predefined style, an existing Style can be modified. Follow the
steps given below to modify an existing user defined style of page, frame or paragraph style.

1. Select the page/paragraph to be modified.


2. Format the selected portion as per the requirement.
3. Go to Style menu, and click on the button to update.
4. Using Style Action button, click on Updated Selected Style.

NOTE:- Ensure that the aspect modified remains same throughout the selection. For example, in paragraph, if you
are changing font face or size then, throughout the paragraph it should remain same.

Load Style from a template or document


It is used to copy style from an existing template or document. Once copied, in the list of styles, you can create a
new document having same appearance as old one with no extra efforts. Steps to copy style from template or
document are:

1. Click on the Load Styles from the Style menu.


2. Load Style dialog box open and choose the category of your document.
3. Find and select the desired template to copy styles from.
4. Also select the options for the types of styles to be copied, such as Paragraph and Character styles, Frame,
Page or List.
5. Click OK button.

NOTE:

1. If you want to copy the style from file then instead of Template option, click on the From File button. A File
Selection dialog box is displayed and select the desired document.
2. By selecting Overwrite option from the load style dialog box, the styles being copied will replace any existing
style with the same name.

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