Styles in a document important points

 Styles in a document.  Introduction. Word processor  are used for preparing different types of documents. All type of document are prep...

 Styles in a document. 

Introduction.

Word processor  are used for preparing different types of documents. All type of document are prepare keeping in mind the audience. 

 For example,  a  document catering to primary student Have bigger fonts, lasser lines on page and also, the page should be colourful. 

 Similarly,  and artical catering to a Financial institute will have much more text than the earlier mentioned document and have proper representation of facts ,numbers, figures and charts.

Any type of document can cater to its intended audience if it has right type of formatting. Without formatting a document is mere text and figures,  and it fails to deliver.

Styles play a very important role in formatting. This session is dedicated to the discussion of style in OpenOfficeWriter.

What is a Style and its Categories  in Writer?

A style in a word processor, is a named collection of various formatting features that defined the looks and behaviour of document components, Sach has a paragraph, or a page or a group of selected characters etc., associated with this style.

Individual characters can have on styles and show can component like frame and list.

Advantage of Styles

Styles are preferred way of formatting Bigger documents for this region:

1. Style maintain consitent of formatting in a document, eg., aur paragraph will have same font, size and line spacing etc.
2. Style make major formatting changes easily applicable across all the objects that have the same style.
3. Style make formatting changes very fast. - just change the styles formatting feature and it will be instantly applied to all the place that are based on this style.

What are the types of style in writer?

1. Paragraph Styles 
2. Character styles
3. Page Styles
4. Frame Styles
5. List Styles 

In OpenOffice.org Writer, almost everything can be associated with a style. OpenOffice.org Writer allow you to create and apply five type of Style :

1. Paragraph styles affect an entire paragraph. That is, this style stored the formatting feature for paragraph and when applied this will affect a full paragraph.
2. Character Styles affect a block of text inside a paragraph. That is, this style will affect only the selected characters such as work of some selected text etc.
3. Page Styles  affect page formatting(page size,margin, and the like). When applied this page style affect the look and formatting of a page.
4. Frame Styles  affect frames and graphics. 
5. List Styles  affect numbered list and bulleted list. This store formatting feature like numbering/ Bullet style ,margin of list, line spacing and before and after spacing etc.

Styles and formatting window.

All the styles related information and management happens through a special floating or dockable Window in writer known as styles and formatting window.

How to open styles and formatting window on computer?

You can open this window using one of the following three ways;

1. By command format -> styles and formatting.
2. By clicking on styles and formatting button on formatting toolbar.
3. By pressing F11 key.

All the above listed method will open the style and formatting window.

Understanding the Styles and formatting window interface.

Let us know briefly discuss the interface of the styles and formatting window.

 Look at the figure shown below and read the description given below.

Figure: 1

What are the categories of Styles?

As you can notice in style and formatting window there are following five type of formatting style in Writers:

Name

1.) Character Styles 

2.) Paragraph Styles 

3.) Frame Styles 

4.) Page Styles 

5.) List Styles 

what are the group of Styles ?

Name

1.)Automatic

2.) All Styles 

3.) Applied Styles 

4.) Custom styles

5.) Character Styles 

6.) Chapter Styles 

7.) List Styles 

8.) Index Styles 

9.) Special region Styles 

10.) HTML Styles 

Working With Styles

Let us now top about how you can work with styles in writer. You can apply the existing styles on different object e.g. same paragraph style can be applied on to multiple paragraphs to give them consistent formatting;

You can create new styles; you can't load styles from another template on document and so on. All this we shall be covering in the section. 

Applying Styles to Document Objects. 

There are some styles available by default in a writer document. You can see yourself in Figure 1 that wherever you click attach style - type icon on the top bar of Style and formatting window the list shown below the top shows the styles available under the style type category.

How to apply a desired style in an object ?

All you need to do is;

1. Open styles and formatting window(F11 Key) as explained above. 
2. Select the object (paragraph/character/frame etc). On which style is to be applied.
3. From the style and formatting window, firstly select the style-type as per the selected object and then double-click on style name which is to be applied on it.
4. Every paragraph always has the associated style. By default,  every paragraph has default style but when you apply a style on a paragraph, its style name changes. The style of the current document paragraph is indicated through the style box on the formatting toolbar.

How to apply Character Styles on an object?

In the same way, you can apply the styles of different objects, e.g. character styles applied to selected character which are the part of a paragraph but paragraph styles are applied to ful paragraph only.

Using Fill Format Mode.

In the previous section you will learn about how to apply style from selected object where you can select the object on and then click on the desired style name in Styles and formatting window. 

But if you have to apply same style to multiple object which are placed at different positions this method of selecting and applying will prove time-consuming and annoying too.

What is a Fill Format Mode ? How to use Fill Format  Mode ?

To avoid such a situation open office writer offer and easiest way of applying style- Fill format,  which is useful in situation when you have to apply style to multiple scattered object in the document.

To use Fill Format, do the following:

1. Open the style and formatting window (by pressing F11 )and select the style you want to apply.
2. Click the Fill format Mode icon.
3. To apply paragraph, page or Frame style ,hover the mouse over the paragraph, page, or frame and click. Or to apply a character styled hold down the mouse button while selecting the character, clicking on a word applies the character style for that word.
4. Repeat this step until you've applied that style to all the objects you wanted to.
5. To quit Fill format mode, click the fill format mode icon again or press the ESC KEY.