[libreoffice-users] styles for plays?

I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of plays.
The plays came to me
in different styles -- three of the plays came to me with all the
characters's speaking lines
 centered -- the characters's names centered a line above.

Some of the writers seem to have centered the names with a centering code
-- I can
highlight the name and use the "left margin" code to move the name to left
margin.  Others
seem to have centered by spacing over! (yes)  and I have to backspace until
I get the name
to the left margin.

None used a colon after the speaker, and the publisher wants it.  I've made
some progress with
Search & Replace --  Search for all incidents of TOM and replace with TOM
colon space. But the
most tedious part is moving TOM from center to left and bring his speaking
lines up to begin
on the same line.  Is there any way I can put these plays into a style
sheet and save this work, or
would creating  the style sheet take as long as what I'm doing?  I've never
used styles.  And this is a one-time
job so if I have to do it all by hand, at least it's only once.

Thanks for any advice,
-- 
Helen Etters
using Linux, suse12.3

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