Hello! For those of you, particularly Wordperfect refugees, who may be
struggling at times to use Styles to consistently format or re-format
existing documents or merge documents from various sources, it may be
helpful to take a few moments to review several very helpful automatic
features relating to Styles that are built into OpenOffice.org. These
are all click, click, and drag 'n drop techniques; very fast and
efficient. These instructions are in the Help files.
A Style may be created on the fly from a selection using the techniques
found under Contents -> Text Documents -> Formatting Text Documents ->
Templates and Styles -> Creating New Styles From Selections and also
Contents -> Text Documents -> Formatting Text Documents -> Templates and
Styles -> Creating a Page Style Based on the Current Page.
An existing Style may be updated to incorporate any direct formatting
which may have been applied to it using the techniques found under
Contents -> Text Documents -> Formatting Text Documents -> Templates and
Styles -> Updating Styles From Selections.
Direct formatting and Character Styles may be removed from a selection
by pressing Shift+Cntl+Space or using the menu command Format -> Default
Formatting.
You can import styles from another document or template into the current
document using the techniques found under Contents -> Text Documents ->
Formatting Text Documents -> Templates and Styles -> Using Styles From
Another Document or Template.
You can use the keyboard to quickly apply the same paragraph style to
two consecutive paragraphs using the techniques found under Contents ->
Text Documents -> Formatting Text Documents -> Quickly Applying
Paragraph Styles.
You can quickly apply styles, such as paragraph and character styles, in
your document by using the Fill Format Mode in the Styles and Formatting
window as described under Contents -> Text Documents -> Formatting Text
Documents -> Applying Styles in Fill Format Mode.
When troubleshooting formatting problems, it is important to remember
that certain attributes and properties belong to specific levels of the
Style hierarchy. For example, issues of character appearance are set via
Paragraph styles, Character styles, or direct formatting. Indentation,
line spacing, and widow and orphan control are Paragraph attributes,
while margins, headers and footers are Page attributes. Unlike Paragraph
and Character properties, page properties can't be set directly, only
through the creation of new or modification of existing Page styles. So
if you have margins that appear to be inconsistent with the Pages style,
it has to be an issue of Paragraph indentation which will visually mimic
a changed margin. You can get a feel for which properties are set at
which level by taking a few minutes to review the dialogs found under
Format -> Page..., Format -> Paragraph..., and Format -> Character....
Hope this helps.
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Rod
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