Create New Page Style in Writer
Page Style
Open the Styles and Formatting, choose More and click on Page styles and then right click to create a new style.
This will open up the Organizer which will default to a screen so that you can name the new style.
Type a name for your new Style, for example a style for a small book, so you type in MyBook for the name and then set all of your settings the way you would like.
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Once you have all of your settings correct then choose OK.
Save your document that you used to create the Style as MyBook (an example). The next step is making the new page Style MyBook available to other documents. First open a new document that you would like to insert your new Style into. Open Styles and Formatting
from the Object Bar and select Load Styles from the option in the upper right hand of the window. Choose the From File button to load your Style from the saved document. Locate your document and click Open.
Now when the Styles and Formatting window appears you need to select Custom Styles at the bottom and you will see your Style. Highlight your Style, choose the Fill Format Mode (the bucket) and then click your page and the format will be placed on the page.
Double click the MyBook Style, or whatever you call the new Style, and it will enforce the Style onto your document. Styles may seem like a lot of steps, but once you have done it a few times it is well worth it.
And then, if I need it again in another document, I still have to do all those steps again, every time since my own style won’t show up by itself in any new document (unless I did something wrong).
What if I create a lot of new documents with different styles and I need a style I used last year? I will need to remember in what exact document I used it, to retrieve it for the new document.
— Very fastidious, counter-intuitive and counter-productive way to use your own styles!
In this case, unless someone sees a better way, it is a way more efficient to forget about all these instructions, just create a document for all my style, where I will drop a bit of text every time I want to save a new style, and use it to retrieve my styles without having to reopen a lot of files just to figure out where I could have used it.
Why can’t we just have an option in the context menu to “Save style as”, name it, save it and be able to reuse it in any new document?
Thanks for the infos, anyway. But I really thought there was a better way to use custom styles in OO…
bluesdeville
June 20, 2009 at 2:46 pm