How-To: Set the next style using the style organizer - OpenOffice.org
- Styles can have another style follow it automatically after a new line or paragraph. Some of them have a "Next Style" set as a default.
- This screencast demonstrates how to set or change the "next style" that follows a current one. To start, the styles and formatting window must be open. You can do this by pressing "F11" on the keyboard.
- Next, look for the style you want to modify and right click over it. In this example we are choosing the style "Heading 2."
- Once the context menu opens, click on the option "Modify..."
- The window for the options of the selected style should appear.
- If it is not open yet, click on the "Organizer" tab here.
- Once the organizer tab is open, look for the "Next Style" field and click on its down arrow here.
- A list of styles should open. This is where you choose the next style that follows the current one. Just click once on your choice.
- For this example we are clicking on "Text Body indent."
- Once you're done, click on "OK."
- Good! Now to check, notice that this heading has the paragraph style.....
- ..."Heading 2." This is the style we modified earlier.
- Now, when we press enter, and type in a new paragraph...
- You should see that the next style that is automatically applied to the new paragraph is the one we chose earlier.
- Congratulations! You have learned how to set the next style that follows a currently selected one.
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Set the next style using the style organizer
This screencast screencast demonstrates how to set the next style
using the style organizer.
You will learn:
- How to start modifying a style.
- How to set the next style that follows a selected one using the style organizer.
Applications
This tutorial procedure can be applied to the following OpenOffice.org modules.
Advanced topics
For advanced functionality with similar results see:
- Create a new style using selected text
- Link styles using the style organizer
- Update the formatting of a style and apply it
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