Character Style
Character styles provide a way to customize the formatting for individual characters. Use character styles to change the properties of a character, word or selected part of a paragraph. When you apply a character style to a text selection, the character style properties override the corresponding paragraph character properties.
For example, if you apply a character style with 15pt font size to a selection in a paragraph with character property of 12pt font size, the selection is set to 15pt, while the rest of the paragraph remains with 12pt font size.
No Character Style is actually the set of character properties of the current paragraph style. Choose No Character Style to reset the character properties of the selection to those of the paragraph style. You cannot customize No Character Style.
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Choose or (Command+TF11) to open Styles deck.
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Click on the Character Style icon at top of the deck, then select a character style.
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Right-click to open context menu and choose .
Direct formatting overrides any formatting provided by a character style. To remove direct formatting from a selection, use (CommandCtrl+M).
Set the options for the selected style.
Use the Contains section in the General tab to see the properties of the character style.
Specify the formatting and the font that you want to apply.
Specify the font effects that you want to use.
Specify the position, scaling, rotation, and spacing for characters.
Sets the options for double-line writing for Asian languages. Select the characters in your text, and then choose this command.
These commands can only be accessed after you enable support for Asian languages in LibreOffice - PreferencesTools - Options - Languages and Locales - General.
Applies current highlighting color to the character style or text selection.
Sets the border options for the selected objects in Writer or Calc.
Reset
Resets modified values on the current tab back to the values when the dialog was opened. If Apply is used before closing the dialog, then values are reset to those after the last use of Apply.
Apply
Applies modifications on all tabs without closing dialog. Cannot be reverted with Reset.
Reset to Parent
Values for the current tab are set to those found in the corresponding tab of the style specified in “Inherit from” in the General tab. In all cases, also when “Inherit from” is “- None -”, current tab values specified in “Contains” are removed.
OK
Saves all changes and closes dialog.
Cancel
Closes dialog and discards changes on all tabs. If Apply was used, then changes after the last use of Apply are discarded.