OpenOffice.org 2.x Betriebsanweisung PDF herunterladen (Seite 117)

Chapter 3: Managing Text Documents With Writer

The Advantages of the Styles and Formatting Window

From the preceding instructions users should now know how to apply the styles in the Styles

and Formatting window to text, how to apply custom Styles and how to create a template that

uses these custom styles. This gives an advantage in that Styles do not have to be redefined

every time. Plus one can apply Styles from one text document to another text document by

either selecting “Format > Styles and Formatting or by opening the Style and Formatting

window and using Load Styles from the New Style from Selection dropdown

menu. In this way, the desired formatting can be applied to the document quickly and

easily. But the Styles and Formatting window offers still more possibilities.

Formatting Multiple Paragraphs

In the work described above, the same Paragraph Style “Heading 1” was applied to each

of several paragraphs. The Styles and Formatting window can save a lot of time on this task:

1. In the Styles and Formatting window, select the Style that should be applied on multiple

paragraphs by clicking the Style once.

2. At the top of the Styles and Formatting window, click on the Fill Format Mode

icon. The mouse pointer changes to a symbol indicating this mode as soon as it moves back

into the document.

3. Click once on every paragraph in the text to which to apply the selected Style.

4. Finally, to switch off this mode, click the Fill Format Mode icon again or press the

Escape key.

Changing a Style the Easy Way

The section provides a scenario for making a style change quick and easy. To start one has

used the custom Style made in the previous sections to format a document with the new

“Head1” Style. However, later, the user may decide that it would look better if the headings

were spaced with slightly wider gaps between the letters. The following gives the steps to

making this change:

1. Locate the longest heading formatted with the “Head1” Style “in the document and click

three times in that heading to select the entire line.

2. Make the desired changes. To lock the character spacing, use this method:

a) choose Format > Character, or choose Character from the context menu for

the selected line.

b) In the Character dialogue, click the Position tab and in the Spacing list box

select “Expanded”. In the spin button, increase the spacing to make the heading

wider.

c) Close the dialogue with OK.

3. Now additional direct formatting has been on one of the headings formatted with the Style

“Head1”. All direct and Style formatting should now be added to the “Head1” Paragraph

Style. This style is still selected in the Styles and Formatting window.

OpenOffice.org User Guide for 2.x 83

1 2 ... 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 ... 507 508

Keine Kommentare

OpenOffice.org 2.x Betriebsanweisung Seite 117