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 ordered or unordered 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.
Document Structure	Displays formatting styles for structuring documents.
List Styles	Displays formatting styles for ordered or unordered lists.
Index Styles	Displays formatting styles for indexes.
Special 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.