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This opens the Paragraph Style dialog box, with the Organizer page
selected. To create a custom style, you have to understand and
configure the top three entries.
Style fields Description
Name
This is the name of the style itself, like Heading 1 or Text
body.
Set (type in the text box) the name to Poem.
Next Style
This is the default style that follows the Poem style.
When you press Enter while typing text in the Poem
style, this style is used.
Set this value to Poem. When you press Enter, the text
will remain in the Poem style.
Linked with
If the Poem style is linked with another, say Default, then
any change in Default will affect Poem, just as you saw
with Heading in the previous section.
For our example, this is not the behavior we want. Set
this entry to – None –. This means that Poem is not
linked with any other style.
After making these changes, the dialog box should look like
Figure 191.
Figure 191: Initial configuration for the Poem style. Set
the first three entries as shown.
The next step is to configure the alignment and font properties of this
style.
• On the Alignment page, select the Center option.
• On the Font page, select the 12pt font size.
Click OK to save the new Poem style.
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