LibreOffice Writer Styles

Styles in Writer

• A style is a collection of formatting information that can be saved and applied to a document.
• Writer provides six Style categories.

Page Styles

• Used to format the basic page layout.
• Defines page size, margin, placement of header and footer, footnote, borders, and background.
• A document can have one or many page styles.
• If a page style is not specified, Writer uses its built-in Default page style.

Paragraph Styles

• Used to format the document content, which is organized in paragraphs.
• Paragraph formatting includes tab stops, text alignment, line spacing, and borders.
• Usually, it also includes Character styling attributes.

Character Styles

• Used to work on blocks of letters, i.e., word(s) in the paragraph.
• Allows changing the appearance of a part of a paragraph without affecting the other part.
• Character styles allow changing text color, text size, highlighting text, and emphasizing it.

Frame Styles

• Used to organize a document in sections, so that each section of the page can have a different appearance.
• Frames are like containers, which can hold text, graphics, and lists.
• Allows formatting a frame by specifying its size, position, border, and how the text is placed around the picture.

List Styles

• Used to style lists in a document.
• Allows styling lists by putting numbering or bullets of a different kind or specifying numeric format.

Table Styles

• Used to format a table by adding borders, using different text or border color(s), aligning text inside the table, and having different patterns or text color.
• Allows organizing and presenting a large amount of information effectively.