Getting Started Guide

1 Open Styles and
Formatting Window
6 Italic 12 Font Color
7 Underline 13 Highlighting
2 Apply Style 8 Superscript 14 Background Color
3 Font Name 9 Subscript 15 Open Character
Format Dialog
4 Font Size 10 Increase Font
5 Bold 11 Reduce Font
Figure 76: Formatting toolbar, showing icons for character formatting
Tip
To remove manual formatting, select the text and choose Format >
Default Formatting, or right-click and choose Default Formatting.
Autoformatting
You can set Writer to automatically format parts of a document according to the
choices made on the Options page of the AutoCorrect dialog (Tools > AutoCorrect
Options).
Tip
If you notice unexpected formatting changes occurring in your
document, this is the first place to look for the cause.
Some common unwanted or unexpected formatting changes include:
• Horizontal lines. If you type three or more hyphens (---), underscores (___) or
equal signs (===) on a line and then press Enter, the paragraph is replaced by
a horizontal line as wide as the page. The line is actually the lower border of
the preceding paragraph.
• Bulleted and numbered lists. A bulleted list is created when you type a hyphen
(-), star (*), or plus sign (+), followed by a space or tab at the beginning of a
paragraph. A numbered list is created when you type a number followed by a
period (.), followed by a space or tab at the beginning of a paragraph.
Automatic numbering is only applied to paragraphs formatted with the Default,
Text body or Text body indent paragraph styles.
To turn autoformatting on or off, choose Format > AutoCorrect and select or
deselect the items on the list.
Creating numbered or bulleted lists
There are several ways to create numbered or bulleted lists:
• Use autoformatting, as described above.
• Use list (numbering) styles, as described in Chapters 6 (Introduction to Styles)
and 7 (Working with Styles) in the Writer Guide.
• Use the Numbering and Bullets icons on the paragraph formatting toolbar (see
Figure 75): select the paragraphs in the list, and then click the appropriate
icon on the toolbar.
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