Tutorials for OpenOffice
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original content by Walter Hildebrandt / tutorialsforopenoffice.org
INTRODUCTION TO STYLES
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Styles Allow The Following
Makes OpenOffice Writer Easy To Use and provide Powerful Capability.
Provides Consistency throughout documents.
Determines the Appearance Of Just About Anything in OpenOffice.
A Few Examples Of What Styles Can Do
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The above words, Styles Allow The Following and A Few Examples Of What Styles Can Do, are centered, bigger, and in bold.
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Styles can cause all pages to be numbered or just some pages to be numbered.
Styles can cause the margins to be different on the same page or different on different pages.
Styles can make tables, columns, calculations, and/or graphics appear in a document.
Styles can create a table of contents, indexes, footers, and footnotes.
This Chapter Covers The Following Information
Page Styles and Paragraph Styles
This tutorial uses page styles to create a Table Of Contents. When a new text document is opened, there is only the one page style named "Default" that is activated. This tutorial creates new page styles.
Paragraph Styles
When a new text document is opened, there is only one Paragraph Style activated. This tutorial activates additional Paragraph Styles. These Paragraph Styles allow various titles (headings) to be added throughout the document. The Paragraph Styles allow a Table Of Contents to be created easily.
Write a Poem
This tutorial creates paragraph styles to format the unique layout of a poem. A simple poem is written to show how the paragraph styles function.
Introduction To Styles
