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The result should resemble Figure 198.

Figure 198: The text formatted as Heading 3 style is now indented

Using AutoUpdate

On the Organizer page of the Paragraph Style dialog box is a check box named

AutoUpdate (Figure 199). It is present only for paragraph and frame styles. If this

check box is selected, then OOo will apply to the style itself any modification made

manually to a paragraph formatted with that style.

Caution

If you are in the habit of manually overriding styles in your

document, be sure that AutoUpdate is not enabled, or you will

suddenly find whole sections of your document reformatting

unexpectedly.

Figure 199: The Organizer page of the Paragraph Style dialog box

Creating custom paragraph styles: examples

You have seen that the Styles and Formatting window provides several predefined

styles, such as Heading 1 and Text body. But what if you need something different,

like a poem style, that is not in Styles and Formatting? With Writer you can make

your own styles to suit your needs.

Chapter 7 (Working with Styles) describes in detail the options on the various pages

of the Paragraph Style dialog box. This section provides an example of a typical use of

custom paragraph styles.

We create a Poem paragraph style and a Poem Header paragraph style, with the

following properties:

• Poem: Centered, with a font size of 10pt.

• PoemHeading: Centered, bold, with a 12pt font size.

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