Writer Guide

Move to the page where the setting you want to modify is specified and
input the new value. You can click the Help button at any time to bring
up the online guide where all the options of the current page are
briefly described. When you are done, click OK to close the dialog box.
As discussed above, the great advantage of styles is that all the
instances of such style in your document are now modified to your
liking.
Examples: Modifying paragraph styles
For this example, we need three lines of text with three OOo-supplied
paragraph styles: Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3. These
paragraph styles could be used in formating headings (subheads) in
the framework for a document that will be “fleshed out” afterwards.
Open a new text document for this exercise and type Title on the first
line, click the Paragraph Styles icon on the Styles and Formatting
window, and double-click Heading 1 in the drop-down list. Repeat this
procedure for the other entries of Figure 184, using the proper
paragraph style for each: the Heading 1 style for the paragraph
containing the word Title, Heading 2 for Subtitle 1, and so on.
Your document should resemble Figure 184.
Figure 184: Headings 1–3 with default styles
Suppose you decide to make some changes to these styles, namely:
• Heading 1 should be centered.
• Heading 3 should be indented.
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