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and thus building a kind of dependency tree – though dependencies can be broken at any

point, allowing for full flexibility. The most basic style is Default. By modifying the style

Default you automatically modify all other styles, thus possibly forcing you to modify these

again in the opposite direction. This is the reason why you should never actually use the

Default style.

Paragraph styles are no doubt the category most commonly used. But there are other cat-

egories: Character Styles (which I use here to highlight Menus and Shortcuts using

the font Courier 10pt), Frame Styles, Numbering Styles and – most importantly as

you shall later discover – Page Styles (for instance the title page and the text pages).

□ “Default Formatting”?

Under the menu Format you will see the option Default Formatting (Ctrl

m). If you

apply Default Formatting to any marked text, it will loose any formatting you may have

applied to it manually and take all its formatting exclusively from the Paragraph style it

belongs to. This is very practical for “cleaning” purposes, e.g. after having imported a file from

Microsoft Word full of hidden formatting you want to get rid of. The term Default

Formatting should not be confused with the term Default style!

14 Exporting Styles for re-use

You can export a style so as to be able to reuse it at some later date or even pass it on to other

users (useful for group work). To do that, go to Menu File › Templates › Save and

choose an appropriate name such as Thesis. In order to import a style you have saved, go to

Menu Format › Styles and formatting and there choose the small black triangle point-

ing downwards in the menu bar. Here press Load Styles... You will be presented with a

list of styles, amongst them your Thesis. Here you can choose which categories you would

like to import and if the imported styles should overwrite existing styles, which is again very

useful for post-formatting group work (see section 10).

15 MS-Word

In case your lecturer insists on being provided with a Microsoft Word document, just export

your document to Word by choosing File › Save as and then selecting File type ›

Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP.

If on the other hand you have just imported a Word document full of manual formatting

without consistent use of styles you will need to “clean” the text. There are two ways to go

about it:

1. The more radical but very simple solution is to i) mark the whole text using shortcut

Ctrl + a, ii) turn the marked text into Text body with Ctrl + 0, iii) make sure

all old formatting disappears completely with Ctrl + m iv) finally format your text

from scratch using styles.

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