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Getting Started Guide 6.4 | 3 Creating New (Custom) Styles Copyright This document is Copyright © 2020 by the LibreOffice Documentation Team. Contributors are listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), version 4.0 or later. All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. Contributors To this edition Jean Hollis Weber Andrew Jensen Kees Kriek Dan Lewis Steve Fanning Claire Wood Pulkit Krishna Roman Kuznetsov To previous editions Andrew Jensen Amanda Labby Cathy Crumbley Dan Lewis Dave Barton Jean Hollis Weber Jorge Rodriguez Olivier Hallot Paul Figueiredo Peter Schofield John A Smith Martin Saffron Steve Schwettman Dave Barton Hazel Russman Ron Faile Jr. Kevin O’Brien Magnus Adielsson Iain Roberts JiHui Choi Regina Henschel Laurent Balland-Poirier Christian Kühl Florian Reisinger Gisbert Friege (Dmaths) Jochen Schiffers Frédéric Parrenin Bernard Siaud Miklos Vajna Valerii Goncharuk Andrew Pitonyak Feedback Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to the Documentation Team’s mailing list: [email protected] Note Everything you send to a mailing list, including your email address and any other personal information that is written in the message, is publicly archived and cannot be deleted. Publication date and software version Published May 2020. Based on LibreOffice 6.4. Documentation for LibreOffice is available at https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/ Contents Copyright.....................................................................................................................................2 Preface.................................................................................................................................9 Who is this book for?.................................................................................................................10 What’s in this book?...................................................................................................................10 Where to get more help.............................................................................................................10 What you see may be different..................................................................................................12 Using LibreOffice on macOS......................................................................................................12 What are all these things called?...............................................................................................13 Frequently asked questions.......................................................................................................14 Chapter 1 Introducing LibreOffice...................................................................................15 What is LibreOffice?...................................................................................................................16 Advantages of LibreOffice..........................................................................................................17 Minimum requirements..............................................................................................................17 How to get the software.............................................................................................................18 How to install the software.........................................................................................................18 Extensions and add-ons............................................................................................................18 Starting LibreOffice....................................................................................................................18 Parts of the main window...........................................................................................................19 Starting new documents............................................................................................................25 Opening existing documents......................................................................................................26 Saving documents.....................................................................................................................26 Password protection..................................................................................................................27 Opening and saving files on remote servers..............................................................................29 Using the Navigator...................................................................................................................30 Undoing and redoing changes...................................................................................................31 Reloading a document...............................................................................................................31 Using document properties........................................................................................................31 Closing a document...................................................................................................................33 Closing LibreOffice.....................................................................................................................33 Troubleshooting LibreOffice in Safe Mode.................................................................................34 Chapter 2 Setting up LibreOffice......................................................................................36 Introduction................................................................................................................................37 Choosing options for all of LibreOffice.......................................................................................37 Choosing options for loading and saving documents.................................................................50 Choosing language settings.......................................................................................................55 Choosing Internet options..........................................................................................................59 Controlling LibreOffice’s AutoCorrect functions..........................................................................60 Chapter 3 Using Styles and Templates............................................................................61 Introduction................................................................................................................................62 What are styles?........................................................................................................................62 Applying styles...........................................................................................................................63 Creating and modifying styles....................................................................................................66 Getting Started Guide 6.4 | 3 Creating new (custom) styles.....................................................................................................68 Copying styles from a template or document (Writer)................................................................70 Deleting styles...........................................................................................................................70 What are templates? Why use them?........................................................................................71 Creating a document from a template........................................................................................71 Creating a template...................................................................................................................72 Editing a template......................................................................................................................74 Adding templates obtained from other sources..........................................................................74 Setting a default template..........................................................................................................75 Organizing templates.................................................................................................................76 Examples of style use................................................................................................................79 Chapter 4 Getting Started with Writer..............................................................................81 What is Writer?..........................................................................................................................82 The Writer interface...................................................................................................................82 Changing document views.........................................................................................................86 Working with documents............................................................................................................87 Working with text.......................................................................................................................88 Formatting text...........................................................................................................................98 Formatting
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