Operation Manual

Figure 43: The Apply Style list on the Formatting toolbar
Using keyboard shortcuts
Some keyboard shortcuts for applying styles are predefined. For example, in Writer Ctrl+0 applies
the Text body style, Ctrl+1 applies the Heading 1 style, and Ctrl+2 applies the Heading 2 style. You
can modify these shortcuts and create your own; see Chapter 14, Customizing LibreOffice, for
instructions.
Caution
Manual formatting (also called direct formatting) overrides styles, and you cannot
get rid of the manual formatting by applying a style to it.
To remove manual formatting, select the text, right-click, and choose Clear Direct
Formatting from the context menu, or use Ctrl+M after selecting the text.
Modifying styles
LibreOffice provides several ways to modify styles (both the predefined styles and any custom
styles that you create):
• Changing a style using the Style dialog
• Updating a style from a selection
• Use AutoUpdate (paragraph and frame styles only)
• Load or copy styles from another document or template
Note
Any changes you make to a style are effective only in the current document. To
change styles in more than one document, you need to change the template or copy
the styles into the other documents as described on page 66.
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