The appearance of the icons may vary with your operating system and
the selection of icon size and style in Tools > Options >
OpenOffice.org > View.
1 Open Styles and
Formatting Window
6 Italic 12 Font Color
7 Underline 13 Highlighting
2 Apply Style 8 Superscript 14 Background Color
3 Font Name 9 Subscript 15 Open Character
Format Dialog
4 Font Size 10 Increase Font
5 Bold 11 Reduce Font
Figure 70: The Formatting toolbar, showing icons for
character formatting
Tip
To remove manual formatting, select the text and click Format
> Default Formatting, or right-click and select Default
Formatting.
Autoformatting
You can set Writer to automatically format parts of a document
according to the choices made on the Options page of the AutoCorrect
dialog (Tools > AutoCorrect > Options).
Tip
If you notice unexpected formatting changes occurring in your
document, this is the first place to look for the cause.
Some common unwanted or unexpected formatting changes include:
• Horizontal lines. If you type three or more hyphens (---),
underscores (___) or equal signs (===) on a line and then press
Enter
, the paragraph is replaced by a horizontal line as wide as
the page. The line is actually the lower border of the preceding
paragraph.
• Bulleted and numbered lists. A bulleted list is created when you
type a hyphen (-), star (*), or plus sign (+), followed by a space or
tab at the beginning of a paragraph. A numbered list is created
when you type a number followed by a period (.), followed by a
space or tab at the beginning of a paragraph. Automatic
numbering is only applied to paragraphs formatted with the
Default
,
Text body
or Text body indent paragraph styles.
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