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• Character Styles: They are used for selected text within a paragraph. It includes font name, font size, bold, italics,
underline, superscript, subscript, etc. By using character styles, you can change the appearance of a part of a
paragraph without affecting the other part.
• Frame Styles: Frames are used to format images and text within a document, including features such as borders,
backgrounds, and columns. By using frames, a document can be organised into sections, allowing each section to
have a distinct appearance. Frames act as containers that can hold text, graphics, and lists.
• Page Styles: They are used for formatting the pages. It includes margins, headers and footers, borders and
backgrounds. A document can have one or many page styles. If a page style is not specified, Writer uses its built-in
default page style.
• List Styles: They are used for determining the appearance of bulleted or numbered lists, including the type of bullets
or numbering, indentation, and spacing.
• Table Styles: They are used for determining the appearance of tables, including borders, shading, alignment, and
text formatting within table cells.
Using Styles in a Document
Suppose, a user wants to keep the heading aligned to centre in uppercase and blue colour with larger font in several
pages of a document. In normal case, he has to apply each of the formatting options (alignment, font, colour) each
time on the repetitive content, thus making the process lengthy. But when the related formatting commands are
stored in a ‘Style’, he can apply that ‘style’ on each selected content to apply all actions at one go.
Predefined Heading style(s) act as bookmarks in a document. These bookmarks allow faster browsing in a document.
There are two ways to apply an existing style:
• By using Style pane
• By using Fill Format Mode
The Style Pane
In LibreOffice Writer, Styles pane is used to apply, create, edit, add and remove formatting
styles. To apply a style using Styles pane, follow the given steps:
Step 1: Select the text on which you want to apply a style.
Step 2: Click on Show the Styles Sidebar icon present on the left corner of
the Formatting (Styles) toolbar. If the toolbar is not visible then, click on
View → Toolbars, and enable → Formatting (Styles).
OR
Click on Set Paragraph Style drop-down list at the left end of the Formatting toolbar
or Formatting (Styles) toolbar and click on the More Styles option.
OR
Click the Manage Styles option from the Styles menu in the Menu bar.
OR
Click the Styles option from the View menu in the Menu bar. To open Styles pane:
Short key
OR
Click the Styles icon in the Sidebar. F11
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