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=Applying styles=
OpenOffice.org provides several ways for you to select styles to apply.

==Using the Styles and Formatting window==

# Click the '''Styles and Formatting''' icon [[Image:StylesIcon.png]] located at the left-hand end of the object bar, or click '''Format > Styles and Formatting''', or press ''F11''. The Styles and Formatting window shows the types of styles available for the OOo component you are using. Figure 1 shows the window for Writer, with Page Styles visible. You can move this window to a convenient position on the screen or dock it to an edge (hold down the ''Ctrl'' key and drag it by the title bar to where you want it docked).
# Click on one of the icons at the top left of the Styles and Formatting window to display a list of styles in a particular category.
# To apply an existing style (except for character styles), position the insertion point in the paragraph, frame, or page, and then double-click on the name of the style in one of these lists. To apply a character style, select the characters first.

{{Tip|At the bottom of the Styles and Formatting window is a dropdown list. In Figure 1 the window shows ''Automatic'', meaning the list includes only styles applied automatically by OOo. You can choose to show all styles or other groups of styles, for example only custom styles.}}

[[Image:StylesFormatWindow2.png|thumb|none|500px|Figure 1. The Styles and Formatting window for Writer, showing paragraph styles.]]

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==Using Fill Format mode==
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==Using the Apply Style list==

After you have used a style at least once in a document, the style name appears on the Apply Style list (Figure 2) at the left-hand end of the Formatting toolbar, next to the Styles and Formatting icon.

You can open this list and click once on the style you want, or you can use the up and down arrow keys to move through the list and then press ''Enter'' to apply the highlighted style.

[[Image:ApplyStyleList.png|thumb|none|500px|Figure 2: The Apply Style list on the Formatting toolbar.]]

{{Tip|Select '''More...''' at the bottom of the list to open the Styles and Formatting window.}}

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==Assigning styles to shortcut keys==

OOo provides a set of predefined keyboard shortcuts that allow you to quickly apply styles while typing in a document. You can redefine these shortcuts or define your own.

# Click '''Tools > Customize > Keyboard'''. The Keyboard page of the Customize dialog (Figure 3) opens.
# To have the shortcut key assignment available only with one component (for example, Writer), select that component's name in the upper right corner of the page; otherwise select '''OpenOffice.org''' button to make it available to every component.
# Choose the shortcut keys you want to define. In this example we have chosen ''Ctrl+9''.
# In the ''Functions'' section at the bottom of the dialog, scroll down in the Category list to Styles and click the + sign.
# Choose the type of style (our example uses a paragraph style). The ''Function'' list will display the names of the available styles for the selected type. The example shows some of OOo's predefined styles.
# To set ''Ctrl+9'' to be the shortcut key combination for the Text Body style, select ''Text Body'' in the ''Function'' list, and then click '''Modify'''. ''Ctrl+9'' now appears in the ''Keys'' list.
# Make any other required changes and then click '''OK''' to save these settings and close the dialog.

[[Image:StylesKeybdSC.png|thumb|none|500px|Figure 3: Defining keyboard shortcuts for applying styles.]]
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