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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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