Styles

Use the Styles deck of the Sidebar to apply, create, edit, and remove formatting styles. Double-click an entry to apply the style.

To dock the Styles window, drag its title bar to the left or to the right side of the workspace. To undock the window, double-click a free space on its toolbar. By default, the Styles deck displays a preview of the available styles. The previews can be disabled by unchecking the Show Previews box below the list of styles.

Style Category

Paragraph Styles

Displays formatting styles for paragraphs. Use paragraph styles to apply the same formatting, such as font, numbering, and layout to the paragraphs in your document.

Icon Paragraph Styles Paragraph Styles

Character Styles

Displays formatting styles for characters. Use character styles to apply font styles to selected text in a paragraph.

Icon Character Styles Character Styles

Icon Drawing Styles Drawing Styles

Frame Styles

Displays formatting styles for frames. Use frame styles to format frame layouts and position.

Icon Frame Styles Frame Styles

Page Styles

Displays formatting styles for pages. Use page styles to determine page layouts, including the presence of headers and footers.

Icon Page Styles Page Styles

List Styles

Displays formatting styles for numbered and bulleted lists. Use list styles to format number and bullet characters and to specify indents.

Icon List Styles List Styles

Table Styles

Displays formatting styles for tables. Use table styles to apply borders, backgrounds, fonts, alignment, and number formats to tables.

Icon Table Styles Table Styles

Presentation Styles

Show styles used in %PRODUCTNAME Impress AutoLayouts. You can only modify Presentation Styles.

Icon Presentation Styles Presentation Styles

Fill Format Mode

Applies the selected style to the object or text that you select in the document. Click this icon, and then drag a selection in the document to apply the style. To exit this mode, click the icon again, or press Esc.

Icon Fill Format Mode Fill Format Mode

Style actions menu

Opens a submenu with more commands.

Icon New Style from Selection Style actions menu

New Style from Selection

Creates a new style based on the formatting of the current paragraph, page, or selection.

Icon New Style from selection New Style from selection

Update Selected Style

Update Style

The manually formatted attributes of the text at the cursor position in the document will be added to the style that is selected in the Styles window.

Icon Update Style Update Style

Show previews

Check this box to display style names as examples of their formatting.

Styles Window

The styles window displays a list of available styles. Double-click a style to apply it.

Context Menu

Hide

Hides the selected style from view in the Style window. Use the Hidden Styles filter to see a list of hidden styles.

Show

Makes a hidden style visible in Style window.

Spotlight

Displays a color and a unique number code for each applied paragraph or character style in the document.

Styles spotlighting is only available for paragraph and character styles.

Filter Styles

Select a filter from the combo box.