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Creating graphics styles

As discussed above you cannot create new presentation styles. You can

create a new graphics style in two ways:

• Using the Style dialog box

• From a selection

Creating a new style using the Style dialog box

Choose the Graphics icon at the top of the Styles and Formatting

window.

To link a new style with an existing style, first select that style, and

then right-click and select New.

When styles are linked, then when you change the base style (for

example, by changing the font from Times to Helvetica), all the linked

fonts will change as well. Sometimes this is exactly what you want;

other times you do not want the changes to apply to all the linked

styles. It pays to plan ahead.

The style dialog box is shown in Figure 24. It has 14 tabs, each with

several options. If you are familiar with styles in Writer, you will find

that you already know how to set many of these options. When you are

finished making changes, click OK to save those changes.

Figure 24: Dialog box to create a new graphics style

Creating a new style from a selection

You can create a new style from manually formatted text or graphics:

1) Select the item you want to save as a style.

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