Writer Guide

Load Styles (from a template or document)
The last option in the New Style from Selection icon is used to copy
styles into the current document by loading them from a template or
another document. This method copies all styles, or groups of styles, at
one time.
1) Open the document to copy styles into.
2) In the Styles and Formatting window, click on the New Style
from Selection icon and then on Load Styles (see Figure 171).
3) In the Load Styles dialog box (Figure 172), find and select the
template to copy styles from. Click on the From File button if the
styles you want are contained in a text document rather than a
template. In this case, a standard file selection dialog box opens
up, allowing you to select the desired document.
4) Select the check boxes for the types of styles to be copied. If you
select Overwrite, the styles being copied will replace any styles
of the same names in the target document.
5) Click OK to copy the styles.
Figure 172: Loading styles from a template
Using the visible styles filters
At the bottom of the Styles and Formatting window, use the drop-down
menu to select a filtering criterion for the contents of the main body of
the window. Normally, you will find that only a handful of styles are
needed in any given document, and it makes sense to have only these
styles shown.
So, at the beginning of the writing process, you may want to have
access to all the available styles (by selecting All Styles). However, as
the document develops, it is useful to reduce the size of the list
displayed to only the styles already in use (by selecting Applied
Styles). If you work on a document where you want to apply special-
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