You can also link a style to another style. Note: For Category, I would suggest “Custom.” In this tab you will want to be sure you give your style a unique name, select what style should be applied after your custom style (after you hit return when using your custom style), and what Category it should live in. The organizer tab allows you to configure the specifics of how the style will work within the Styles and Formatting window. Of course there are particular areas you want to pay close attention to. In order to begin the process of creating your own style you first want to right-click a blank area in the Styles and Formatting window and select “New.” When the Paragraph Style window opens (see Figure 3) you can begin the process of creation. So the combinations are seemingly limitless.
Any type of formatting that can be applied to text in LibreOffice (font, size, color, alignment, tabs, numbering, drop caps, background, etc.), can be used in the creation of your custom style. When creating a custom style you will have a lot of options available to you. One of those categories is “Custom” and this is where your own, user-created, styles and formats will live. There are twelve different categories in all to select from. The bottom drop-down of this window allows you to select from numerous categories for styles and formatting. What you are seeing in this window, however, is only one category of style. The Styles and Formatting window is where the serious user does their formatting work.Īs you can see (in Figure 2), with very little interaction, you have more styles to choose from.
If you were to click the “More…” entry in the drop-down the Styles and Formatting window will open up. By selecting the text you want the style to apply to and then selecting the style from the drop-down, your text will automatically reformat according to your selection.īut what most users do not know is that there are numerous other styles available. From this drop-down you can select some of the more popular styles available. Most users select their document styles from the style drop-down (see Figure 1). Thanks to the Styles and Formatting tool, you can become a LibreOffice power-user in no time. And best of all, this is all done without a single bit of scripting or coding. With both and LibreOffice you have the ability to create custom styles and formats that can be used, and re-used, easily. These are pre-defined text formats that you can select from in order to change various aspects of your text. If you are a user of or LibreOffice you might be familiar with styles and formatting.
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