Getting Started with Open Office .org 3 part 7. This Manual Book is for anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with the latest version . “GETTING STARTED WITH ″ introduces all software programs of the OpenOffice bundle: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector drawings), Math (equation editor) and Base (database). This book was written by volunteers from the community working through and is distributed under the CreativeCommon Attribution Licence | Figure 38 The Styles and Formatting window for Writer showing paragraph styles. Using Fill Format mode Use Fill Format to apply a style to many different areas quickly without having to go back to the Styles and Formatting window and doubleclick every time. This method is quite useful when you need to format many scattered paragraphs cells or other items with the same style. 1 Open the Styles and Formatting window and select the style you want to apply. 2 Click the Fill Format mode icon . 3 To apply a paragraph page or frame style hover the mouse over the paragraph page or frame and click. To apply a character style hold down the mouse button while selecting the characters Clicking on a word applies the character style for that word. Repeat step 3 until you made all the changes for that style. 4 To quit Fill Format mode click the Fill Format mode icon again or press the Esc key. When this mode is active a right-click anywhere in the Caution document undoes the last Fill Format action. Be careful not to K accidentally right-click and thus undo actions you want to keep. Using the Apply Style list After you have used a style at least once in a document the style name appears on the Apply Style list at the left-hand end of the Formatting toolbar next to the Styles and Formatting icon. Chapter 3 Using Styles and Templates 61 You can open this list and click once on the style you want or you can use the up and down arrow keys to move through the list and then press Enter to apply the highlighted style. _. Select More. at the bottom of the list to open the Styles and 1 ip Formatting window. Figure 39 The Apply Style list on the Formatting toolbar. Using keyboard shortcuts Some keyboard shortcuts for applying styles are predefined. For example in Writer Control 0 applies the Text body style Control 1 applies the Heading 1 style and Control 2 applies the Heading 2 style. You can modify these shortcuts and create your own see Chapter 14 Customizing for .
