Operation Manual

• Frame styles are used to format graphic and text frames, including wrapping type, borders,
backgrounds, and columns.
• Numbering styles apply similar alignment, numbering or bullet characters, and fonts to
numbered or bulleted lists.
• Cell styles include fonts, alignment, borders, background, number formats (for example,
currency, date, number), and cell protection.
• Graphics styles in drawings and presentations include line, area, shadowing, transparency,
font, connectors, dimensioning, and other attributes.
• Presentation styles include attributes for font, indents, spacing, alignment, and tabs.
Different styles are available in the various components of LibreOffice, as listed in Table 3.
LibreOffice comes with many predefined styles. You can use the styles as provided, modify them,
or create new styles, as described in this chapter.
Table 3. Styles available in LibreOffice components
Style Type Writer Calc Draw Impress
Page X X
Paragraph X
Character X
Frame X
Numbering X
Cell X
Presentation X X
Graphics (included in
Frame styles)
X X
Applying styles
LibreOffice provides several ways for you to select styles to apply.
Using the Styles and Formatting window
1) Click the Styles and Formatting icon located at the left-hand end of the formatting toolbar,
or click Format > Styles and Formatting, or press F11. The Styles and Formatting window
shows the types of styles available for the LibreOffice component you are using. Figure 42
shows the window for Writer, with Page Styles visible.
You can move this window to a convenient position on the screen or dock it to an edge
(hold down the Ctrl key and drag it by the title bar to where you want it docked).
2) Click on one of the icons at the top left of the Styles and Formatting window to display a list
of styles in a particular category.
3) To apply an existing style, position the insertion point in the paragraph, frame, page or
word, and then double-click on the name of the style in one of these lists. To apply a
character style to more than one word, select the characters first.
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