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Chapter 3: Managing Text Documents With Writer

Formatting Text With and Without Styles

Plain text can be too bland unless one applies visual effects to it, such as giving overall

structure to the text, emphasizing individual words, quotations or references or breaking up

solid areas of text. Thus the user should consider giving special formatting to sections of text.

Direct Formatting or Formatting With Styles

When working with Writer, choose between direct formatting and formatting with Styles. to

apply text attributes such as bold, italics, font type and font size.

Apply direct format by directly setting a certain attribute(s) to the selected text area. For

example, clicking the Bold icon on the text object bar directly applies the bold format to a

selected text area or to subsequent characters at the cursor while typing. Direct formatting is

more appropriate for one time use. If, for example, to make a word bold, just position the

cursor in the word and click the Bold icon. This works quickly and intuitively.

Styles,on the other hand, apply attributes to text in an indirect manner. A Style is a labelled

collection of default settings that format text. Indirect formatting, with the help of Styles, is

much preferable when formatting lengthy documents in a uniform fashion. Styles do require

some advance preparation. First create the Style, then apply the Style to the text. Both tasks

are best done using the Styles and Formatting window.

By way of example, let's assume that each of the headings is formatted with a 24 point

He lvetica font but this now needs to be changed in all the headings to a 20 point Times

font and in bold. Doing this manually requires time and patience; however, had the format

been defined as a Style, say with the name “Head1”, that was applied to the headings in the

document, one could simply modify the “Head1” Style, and all headings would be

automatically changed to match the new settings.

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