Writer Guide

This section shows how you can quickly make simple modifications to
existing paragraph styles using the same tools you would use for
applying formatting manually.
Tip
Any changes made to a style are effective only in the current
document. If you want to reuse modified or new styles in other
documents, you need to either save the styles in a template—
see Chapter 10 (Working with Templates)—or copy the styles
into the other documents, as described in “Copying and
moving styles” on page 212.
Changing a style using the Style dialog box
To change an existing style using the Style dialog box, right-click on
the style in the Styles and Formatting window and select Modify from
the pop-up menu.
The dialog box displayed depends on the type of style selected. Figure
183 shows an example of the dialog box for a paragraph style. Each
style’s dialog box has several tabs. The various properties on these
dialog boxes are described in the next chapter.
Figure 183: Example of the Paragraph Style dialog box
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