Styles in Writer

The following information concerns Writer styles that you can apply using the Styles deck of the Sidebar.

If you want, you can edit the styles of the current document, and then save the document as a template. To save the document as template, choose File - Templates - Save as Template.

Style Category

These are the different categories of formatting styles.

Name

Description

Character Styles

Use Character Styles to format single characters, or entire words and phrases. If you want, you can nest Character Styles.

Paragraph Styles

Use Paragraph Styles to format paragraphs, including the font type and size. You can also select the paragraph style to apply to the next paragraph.

Frame Styles

Use Frame Styles to format text and graphic frames.

Page Styles

Use Page Styles to organize the structure of the document, and to add page numbers. You can also specify the page style to apply to the first page that follows after a page break.

List Styles

Use List Styles to format numbered or bulleted lists.


Style Groups

These are the style groups that you can display in the Styles window.

Name

Meaning

Automatic

Displays styles appropriate to the current context.

All Styles

Displays all styles of the active style category.

Applied Styles

Displays the styles (of selected category) applied in the current document.

Custom Styles

Displays all user-defined styles in the selected style category.

Character Styles

Displays formatting styles for text.

Chapter Styles

Displays formatting styles for headings.

List Styles

Displays formatting styles for numbered or bulleted lists.

Index Styles

Displays formatting styles for indexes.

Special Region Styles

Displays formatting styles for headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, tables, and captions.

HTML Styles

Displays a list of styles for HTML documents.

Conditional Styles

Displays the user-defined conditional styles.

Hierarchical

Displays the styles in the selected category in a hierarchical list. To view the styles in a sublevel, click on the plus sign (+) next to the sublevel name.