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Unit-1 DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION (ADVANCED) USING LIBREOFFICE WRITER
1 INTRODUCTION TO STYLES
We have already learnt that a word processing package helps in creating,
editing, formatting, and printing of documents. A word processing
package also helps to create business documents for professional use
within a short span of time. The process of creating, managing, and storing
documents electronically is called digital documentation. It offers a wide
range of formatting options to create visually appealing documents,
thereby enhancing user efficiency and performance in the workplace.
Features like styles and templates are particularly useful in offices and
workplaces for managing various types of documentation tasks, helping
users reach new levels of success.
STYLES
A style is a set of formatting that you can apply to text in your document to quickly change its appearance.
Styles can include font type, size, colour, paragraph alignment, line spacing, borders, and shading. By using
styles, you can ensure consistency throughout your document and make formatting changes more efficiently.
Let’s say a user want to maintain the heading on several pages centered, capitalised, blue, and with a larger
font. Normally, he would have to manually apply every formatting option (font, colour, alignment, etc.) to the
heading, which would take a long time. On the other hand, if the relevant formatting commands are saved in
a style, he can apply that style to every heading in one go.
Let us take another example, where you need to change the indentation of all the paragraphs or update the
font for all the titles in a document having 200-400 pages. This could be a tedious task, but the Styles feature
eliminates the need for repetitive work and simplifies the process.
Styles Categories
LibreOffice Writer provides a variety of styles that we can use in our documents. There are six categories of
styles in LibreOffice Writer, which are as follows:
Paragraph Styles
Paragraph styles control text alignment, indentation, spacing, borders, and background colour of the
paragraphs in a document. A paragraph is separated from rest of the content of the document by pressing
Enter key before and after it is finished.
Character Styles
These styles apply to selected text (a character, a word, or a phrase) within a paragraph and affect font type,
size, colour, boldness, italics, underlining, and other text-specific formatting.
Frame Styles
These styles are used to format frames, which are containers for text, graphics, and other objects. Frame styles
control the position, size, borders, and background of frames.
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