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The document outlines advanced features of word processors, specifically focusing on styles in OpenOffice Writer. It explains the different types of styles available, how to apply and modify them, and the process for creating new custom styles. Additionally, it covers the fill format mode for applying styles quickly across various document elements.

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Advanced Features of word processor (1)

The document outlines advanced features of word processors, specifically focusing on styles in OpenOffice Writer. It explains the different types of styles available, how to apply and modify them, and the process for creating new custom styles. Additionally, it covers the fill format mode for applying styles quickly across various document elements.

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Advanced Features of word

processor
UNIT – 1 DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION (ADVANCED)
X IT| NOTES |Submission Date: On or Before 21/6/2023
STYLES
A style is a set of PREDEFINED formats that you can apply to selected pages, text, frames,
and other elements in your document to quickly change their appearance. When you
apply a style, you apply a whole group of formats at the same time
− Styles are logical attributes
− USE OF STYLES:
− Helps improves consistency in a document
− Makes major formatting options easy. [EX: changing font of all titles]
OPENOFFICE WRITER SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF STYLES
• Page styles include margins, headers and footers, borders and backgrounds.
• Paragraph styles control all aspects of a paragraph’s appearance, such as text
alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders
• Character styles used to format characters, words and phrases.
• Frame styles are used to format graphic and text frames, including wrapping type,
borders, backgrounds, and columns.
• Numbering styles apply similar alignment, numbering or bullet characters, and
fonts to numbered or bulleted lists.
Steps to open styles and formatting window
1. Click the Styles and Formatting icon located at the left-hand end of the formatting
tool bar,

Or
2. click Format menu > Styles and Formatting options
Or
3. press F11.

To apply style:

− Select the text


− Press F11
− Click on desired styles button(paragraph)

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− Select the desired style by double clicking on it.
Fill Format Mode:
Fill format mode is used to apply a style to many different areas quickly
Useful when you need to format many scattered paragraphs, cells, or other items with the
same style
Steps:
− Press F11
− Click on any styles button->select desired style
− Click on fill format mode icon
− Move the mouse pointer and click on the text
− Press Esc when finished.
CREATING NEW (CUSTOM) STYLES:
Two ways
1. From selections
2. By drag and drop
From Selections:
Create a new style by copying an existing manual format. This new style applies only to
this document; it will not be saved in the template.
1. Format menu-> styles and formatting options
2. Click on portion of the document from where style has to be copied
3. Click on New Style From selection icon- create style box appears
4. Give name for the style and click ok.
5. Select the text and double click on the saved new style
Drag and Drop :
1. Press F11
2. Select the text whose formatting style is to be new style.
3. Drag the selected text, at least one character over the desired style [paragraph
style] and release
4. Create style dialog box appears, type the new style name and click ok.
5. Select the text and double click on the saved new style
MODIFYING STYLES :
Modify styles (both the predefined styles and custom styles)
− Updating a style from a selection
− Load or copy styles from another document or template
Updating A Style From A Selection:
• Press F11
• Select the text and apply any style
• Select the content and apply any manual formatting
• Click the arrow next to new style from selection icon and select update style.
• Changes has been updated.
Loading Styles From A Template Or Document:
To change styles in more than one document, you need to change the template or
copy the styles into the other documents.
• Open the document you want to copy styles into.
• Click arrow next to new style from selection icon -> select load styles
• Choose desired templates and click ok

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Or
• Choose from file option to copy style from another document.

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