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Introduction To Styles

The document introduces styles in formatting, categorizing them into six types: Page, Paragraph, Character, Frame, List, and Table. It explains how to access styles and formatting through various methods and discusses the Fill Format tool for applying styles to different elements. Additionally, it outlines the process for creating, updating, and modifying styles using selection, drag and drop, or loading from templates.

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Introduction To Styles

The document introduces styles in formatting, categorizing them into six types: Page, Paragraph, Character, Frame, List, and Table. It explains how to access styles and formatting through various methods and discusses the Fill Format tool for applying styles to different elements. Additionally, it outlines the process for creating, updating, and modifying styles using selection, drag and drop, or loading from templates.

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Introduction to Styles

1. Style: A style is a collection of all formatting information, which you want to save and
then apply on the document.

2. Style Categories :- Writer provides six Style categories, which are as follows:
(a) Page –It defines basic page layout like page size, its margin, placement of header and
footer, footnote, borders and background. A document can have one or many page styles. If a
page style is not specified, Writer uses its built-in Default page style.
(b) Paragraph –Paragraph formatting includes tab stops, text alignment, line spacing and
borders. Usually, it also includes Character styling attributes.
(c) Character –Character styles allow changing the text colour, text size, highlighting text
and emphasising it.
(d) Frame –Frames are like containers, which can hold text, graphics and lists. Therefore,
applying Frame
Styles allows to format a frame by specifying its size, position, border and how the text is
Placed around the picture.
(e) List – It can be used to style lists by putting numbering or bullets of a different kind or
specify numeric format.
(f) Table – Table Style category allows to format a table by adding borders, using different
text or border colour(s), aligning text inside the table, having different patterns or text colour.

3. Styles and Formatting accessed by using the following methods:


(i) Using Style option from Menu Bar3.
(ii) Using Style Drop Down list box from the Toolbar.
(iii) View>Toolbars, and enable Formatting/“Formatting (Styles)”.
(iv) Using Sidebar Menu. clicking on Styles icon, displays the Style sub-menu
(v) Using keyboard shortcut — F11 function key.

4. Fill Format
It is the second icon from right on the Style menu.
Fill Format can be used to style scattered – pages, frames, tables, lists, paragraphs or
characters.

5. Creating and Updating a New Style


(a) From Selection –last button in Style menu, is Styles action button is used to create a new
style or modify an existing style.
(b) Using Drag and Drop - It is very easy, as the desired formatted portion of text is just
dragged and dropped at correct place in the Style menu.
(c) Load Styles (from a template or document) - It is used to copy styles from an existing
template or document. Once copied, in the list of styles,you can create a new document
having same appearance as old one with no extra efforts.

6.Updating a Style
Step 1. Select the page/paragraph to be modified.
Step 2. Format the selected portion as per the requirement.
Step 3. Go to Style menu, and click on the button to update.
Step 4. Using Style Action button, click on Updated Selected Style.

NOTE:- READ SUMMARY FROM BOOK

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