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Using Styles and Templates

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Agnes Belzunce Daniel Carrera Peter Hillier-Brook Peter Kupfer Gary Schnabl Janet Swisher Jean Hollis Weber Michele Zarri

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Contents

Copyright...............................................................................................2 What is a template?................................................................................5 What are styles?.....................................................................................5 Applying styles.......................................................................................7

Using the Styles and Formatting window...........................................7 Using Fill Format mode......................................................................8 Using the Apply Style list....................................................................8 Using keyboard shortcuts...................................................................9 Modifying styles.....................................................................................9 Changing a style using the Style dialog............................................10 Updating a style from a selection.....................................................10 Using AutoUpdate.............................................................................10 Updating styles from a document or template..................................11 Creating new (custom) styles...............................................................11 Creating a new style using the Style dialog......................................11 Creating a new style from a selection...............................................11 Dragging and dropping to create a style..........................................12 Copying and moving styles...................................................................12 Using the Template Management dialog...........................................13 Loading styles from a template or document....................................14 Deleting styles......................................................................................15 Using a template to create a document...............................................15 Creating a template.............................................................................16 Creating a template from a document..............................................16 Creating a template using a wizard..................................................18 Editing a template................................................................................19 Updating a document from a changed template...............................20 Adding templates using the Extension Manager..................................21 Setting a default template....................................................................22 Setting a custom template as the default..........................................22

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Resetting the default template..........................................................22 Associating a document with a different template...............................23 Organizing templates...........................................................................24

Creating a template folder................................................................24 Deleting a template folder................................................................24 Moving a template............................................................................25 Deleting a template...........................................................................25 Importing a template........................................................................25 Exporting a template........................................................................26 Examples of style use...........................................................................26 Defining a different first page for a document..................................26 Dividing a document into chapters...................................................27 Changing page orientation within a document.................................27 Different headers on right and left pages.........................................27 Controlling page breaks automatically.............................................28 Compiling an automatic table of contents.........................................28 Defining a sequence of styles............................................................28

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What is a template?

A template is a model that you use to create other documents. For example, you can create a template for business reports that has your company's logo on the first page. New documents created from this template will all have your company's logo on the first page.

Templates can contain anything that regular documents can contain, such as text, graphics, a set of styles, and user-specific setup information such as measurement units, language, the default printer, and toolbar and menu customization.

All documents in (OOo) are based on templates. You can create a specific template for any document type (text, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation). If you do not specify a template when you start a new document, then the document is based on the default template for that type of document. If you have not specified a default template, OOo uses the blank template for that type of document that is installed with OOo. See "Setting a default template" on page 22 for more information.

What are styles?

A style is a set of formats that you can apply to selected pages, text, frames, and other elements in your document to quickly change their appearance. When you apply a style, you apply a whole group of formats at the same time.

Many people manually format paragraphs, words, tables, page layouts, and other parts of their documents without paying any attention to styles. They are used to writing documents according to physical attributes. For example, you might specify the font family, font size, and any formatting such as bold or italic.

Styles are logical attributes. Using styles means that you stop saying "font size 14pt, Times New Roman, bold, centered", and you start saying "Title" because you have defined the "Title" style to have those characteristics. In other words, styles means that you shift the emphasis from what the text (or page, or other element) looks like, to what the text is.

Styles help improve consistency in a document. They also make major formatting changes easy. For example, you may decide to change the indentation of all paragraphs, or change the font of all titles. For a long document, this simple task can be prohibitive. Styles make the task easy.

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In addition, styles are used by for many processes, even if you are not aware of them. For example, Writer relies on heading styles (or other styles you specify) when it compiles a table of contents. Some common examples of style use are given in "Examples of style use" on page 26.

supports the following types of styles:

? Page styles include margins, headers and footers, borders and backgrounds. In Calc, page styles also include the sequence for printing sheets.

? Paragraph styles control all aspects of a paragraph's appearance, such as text alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders, and can include character formatting.

? Character styles affect selected text within a paragraph, such as the font and size of text, or bold and italic formats.

? Frame styles are used to format graphic and text frames, including wrapping type, borders, backgrounds, and columns.

? Numbering styles apply similar alignment, numbering or bullet characters, and fonts to numbered or bulleted lists.

? Cell styles include fonts, alignment, borders, background, number formats (for example, currency, date, number), and cell protection.

? Graphics styles in drawings and presentations include line, area, shadowing, transparency, font, connectors, dimensioning, and other attributes.

? Presentation styles include attributes for font, indents, spacing, alignment, and tabs.

Different styles are available in the various components of OOo, as listed in Table 1.

comes with many predefined styles. You can use the styles as provided, modify them, or create new styles, as described in this chapter.

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Table 1. Styles available in OOo components

Style Type

Writer

Calc

Page

X

X

Paragraph

X

Character

X

Frame

X

Numbering

X

Cell

X

Presentation

Graphics

(included in Frame styles)

Draw

X X

Impress

X X

Applying styles

provides several ways for you to select styles to apply.

Using the Styles and Formatting window

1) Click the Styles and Formatting icon located at the left-hand end of the object bar, or click Format > Styles and Formatting, or press F11. The Styles and Formatting window shows the types of styles available for the OOo component you are using. Figure 1 shows the window for Writer, with Page Styles visible.

You can move this window to a convenient position on the screen or dock it to an edge (hold down the Ctrl key and drag it by the title bar to where you want it docked).

2) Click on one of the icons at the top left of the Styles and Formatting window to display a list of styles in a particular category.

3) To apply an existing style (except for character styles), position the insertion point in the paragraph, frame, or page, and then double-click on the name of the style in one of these lists. To apply a character style, select the characters first.

At the bottom of the Styles and Formatting window is a

dropdown list. In Figure 1 the window shows Automatic,

Tip

meaning the list includes only styles applied automatically by

OOo. You can choose to show all styles or other groups of

styles, for example only custom styles.

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Figure 1: The Styles and Formatting window for Writer, showing paragraph styles.

Using Fill Format mode

Use Fill Format to apply a style to many different areas quickly without having to go back to the Styles and Formatting window and doubleclick every time. This method is quite useful when you need to format many scattered paragraphs, cells, or other items with the same style.

1) Open the Styles and Formatting window and select the style you want to apply.

2) Click the Fill Format mode icon .

3) To apply a paragraph, page, or frame style, hover the mouse over the paragraph, page, or frame and click. To apply a character style, hold down the mouse button while selecting the characters, Clicking on a word applies the character style for that word. Repeat step 3 until you made all the changes for that style.

4) To quit Fill Format mode, click the Fill Format mode icon again or press the Esc key.

Caution

When this mode is active, a right-click anywhere in the document undoes the last Fill Format action. Be careful not to accidentally right-click and thus undo actions you want to keep.

Using the Apply Style list

After you have used a style at least once in a document, the style name appears on the Apply Style list at the left-hand end of the Formatting toolbar, next to the Styles and Formatting icon.

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