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If you regularly use LibreOffice to write, styles may be useful to you. Particularly if like me you work with several organizations, each of which has their own styles.
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Recently, I had to update the entire title of a document with more than 30 chapters. Luckily, I use the styles regularly. So I was able to just change the first title and then apply it to the whole document. A significant time saving: imagine if I had had to modify each title one by one, manually! The advantage of processing this task automatically is also to reduce the margin of error, avoiding forgetting a title en route.
So below you will find the steps to modify a style in LibreOffice and apply it to your entire document. To do this, you will simply need to have the suite installed on your computer. It works on Linux as well as on macOS or Windows. Before you start, update your version of LibreOffice to make sure you have all the new features, as well as bug and security fixes.
1. Open a document in LibreOffice
First, open a document in LibreOffice. You can use an existing document or open a new document.
2. Select the style to modify
In the document used for this demonstration, the style that we are going to modify is as follows: Title 2. By default, it corresponds to the Liberation Sans font, in size 16 pt, with bold and left alignment.
3. Change the style in the text
Select the first occurrence of the style and modify it as desired.
In this demonstration, the first title with the style Title 2 has been changed so that the font is now Arial and is center aligned.
4. Apply the change to the entire document
Once you have formatted the first instance of the style the way you want, go to Styles > Update selected style. Each section of text for which the style in question has been applied is then modified automatically.
In our demonstration, all “Title 2” are now aligned in the center and in Arial.
Caution
Good to know: changing the style only applies to the current document. This is actually a good thing if you work with different organizations, so you can keep your documents and their styles separate.
However, be aware that it is possible to modify a style permanently in LibreOffice.
Source: ZDNet.com