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2) Select all the paragraph properties for the style. Do not click
OK!
3) Click the Condition tab.
4) Select the Conditional Style option.
5) Select the first condition in the Context list (left side of the dialog
box) and select the style you want for this condition in the right-
hand list.
6) Click Apply. The name of the paragraph style appears in the
middle list.
7) Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each condition you want to have linked
to a different style.
8) Click OK.
When the style is selected, you will see that the formatting of your text
depends on the context.
Working with character styles
Character styles complement paragraph styles and are applied to
groups of characters, rather than whole paragraphs. They are mainly
used when you want to change the appearance or attributes of parts of
a paragraph without affecting other parts. Examples of effects that can
be obtained by means of character styles are bold or italic typeface or
colored words.
Two of the character styles used in this document are:
• Keystrokes use the custom OOoKeyStroke style. For example:
to set Writer to full screen, press Control+Shift+J .
• Menu paths use the custom OOoMenuPath style. For example:
to turn field shadings on or off, choose View > Field Shadings.
Other ways of using character styles are described elsewhere in the
Writer Guide . These uses include making chapter numbers, page
numbers, or list numbers larger than the surrounding text and
formatting hyperlinks. When inserting words in different language or
words you do not want the spell checker to detect as mistakes (for
example procedure names in some programming language), character
styles are quite useful because you can define the language to be
applied in the character-style properties.
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