Lesson 5: Use Styles

- Welcome
  - GNU License
  - About this Tutorial
- Lesson 1 - Get Started
- Lesson 2 - Format Text
- Lesson 3 - Page Appearance
- Lesson 4 - Enhance Documents
- Lesson 5 - Use Styles
  - Apply styles
  - Style Dialog box
  - New styles
  - Modify styles
  - Delete styles
- Lesson 6 - Other Features
- Glossary

# Create a New Style

You may find that the styles in the Normal template do not have the characteristics you need for a particular document. AbiWord allows you to create a new style unique to your writing requirements.

Let's create a new style and apply it to some text in your document by following these simple steps:

- Select Format from the Menu bar
- Select Style

  The Styles dialog box appears.

- Select New

  The New Style dialog box appears.

- Type a name for the new style in the Style Name field
- Select Paragraph or Character from the Style Type drop-down
- Select the Paragraph at the bottom of the window to choose the paragraph elements that you would like to format for the style
- Make alignment, indentation, and spacing changes in the Paragraph dialog box
- Select OK to set the style
- Select OK to close the New Style dialog box
- Choose All from the List drop-down to view all the styles available and to make sure that your new style has been added
- Select the new style you created
- Select Apply
- Select Close

You have just completed this section of Lesson 5 and now know how to create a new style. If you'd like to learn how to modify or rename style, select Next. If you'd like to go to a different section within this lesson or to a new lesson, choose from one of the options in the Navigation bar.

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