Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles

Hi Dave,

Dave Liesse schrieb:
> As an end user, I'd like to ask one follow-up question to your third
> point.  This is an "I don't understand" type of question, by the way,
> not a challenge.
>
> Are you implying that if I want to, say, indent one paragraph with no
> other changes, I should create a new style for that?  Seems like a lot
> of work since it can be done with one mouse clicks (or, if I ever get
> around to learning how to create shortcut keys, one keystroke
> combination) plus navigating to the paragraph.
>
> (Just for the record, the indent and outdent keystrokes are probably the
> thing I miss most from MS Word, and there's not much that I miss.)

Your change in format has a textual reason. Therefore it is likely, that 
this is not the only paragraph, where you have to use this format. So 
yes, you should make a style from it. But that is very easy and quickly 
done:
Do all formatting you want to this paragraph as direct (hard) 
formatting. Then from the drop down list of the right button in the 
Styles&Formatting window choose "New Style from Selection". Enter the 
name of the new style, OK. That's all.

The item says 'from Selection', but for a paragraph style there is no 
need to select something. It is sufficient, that the cursor is inside 
the paragraph.

The new style has as parent the old style of the paragraph. It contains 
only those settings, which you have applied in addition. Therefore it 
fits well into the parent-child hierarchy.

The new style is applied to this paragraph and the formats you had 
applied are removed as direct formatting. Therefore the formatting of 
this paragraph will adapt too, if you later on modify the style.

Kind regards
Regina




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