Writer Guide

Creating custom paragraph styles:
examples
You have seen that the Styles and Formatting window provides several
predefined styles, such as Heading 1 and Text body . But what if you
need something different, like a poem style, that is not in Styles and
Formatting? With Writer you can make your own styles to suit your
needs.
Chapter 7 (Working with Styles) describes in detail the options on the
various pages of the Paragraph Style dialog box. This section provides
an example of a typical use of custom paragraph styles.
We create a Poem paragraph style and a Poem Header paragraph style,
with the following properties:
• Poem : Centered, with a font size of 10pt.
• PoemHeading : Centered, bold, with a 12pt font size.
In addition, a PoemHeading style is to be followed by a Poem style. In
other words, when you press Enter , the next paragraph style in the
document changes to Poem .
Note
You may have noticed this behavior already. After you enter a
heading using a Heading paragraph style and press Enter , the
next style switches to Text body .
Creating the Poem paragraph style
Our next example uses the Poem style. We will use the Default style as
a starting point.
1) Click the Styles and Formatting icon or press F11 .
2) Click the Paragraph Styles icon (first from the left).
3) Right-click Default and choose New (see Figure 189).
Figure 189: Create a new style
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