Character Style

Character styles provide a way to customise the formatting for individual characters. Use character styles to change the properties of a character, word or selected part of a paragraph. When you apply a character style to a text selection, the character style properties override the corresponding paragraph character properties.

For example, if you apply a character style with 15pt font size to a selection in a paragraph with character property of 12pt font size, the selection is set to 15pt, while the rest of the paragraph remains with 12pt font size.

No Character Style is actually the set of character properties of the current paragraph style. Choose No Character Style to reset the character properties of the selection to those of the paragraph style. You cannot customize No Character Style.

To access this command...

1. Choose View - Styles or Styles - Manage Styles (F11) to open Styles deck.

2. Click on the Character Style icon at top of the deck, then select a character style.

3. Right-click to open context menu and choose Modify/New.

Character Style icon

Direct formatting overrides any formatting provided by a character style. To remove direct formatting from a selection, use Format - Clear Direct Formatting (Ctrl+M).

Organiser

Set the options for the selected style.

Use the Contains section in the Organiser to see the properties of the character style.

CharactersFont

Specify the formatting and the font that you want to apply.

Font Effects

Specify the font effects that you want to use.

Font PositionPosition

Specify the position, scaling, rotation and spacing for characters.

Asian Layout

Sets the options for double-line writing for Asian languages. Select the characters in your text, and then choose this command.

These commands can only be accessed after you enable support for Asian languages in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages.

Highlighting

Applies current highlighting colour to the character style or text selection.

Borders

Sets the border options for the selected objects in Writer or Calc.

Reset

Resets modified values on the current tab back to the values when the dialogue box was opened. If Apply is used before closing the dialogue box, then values are reset to those after the last use of Apply.

Apply

Applies modifications on all tabs without closing dialogue box. Cannot be reverted with Reset.

Reset to Parent

Values for the current tab are set to those found in the corresponding tab of the style specified in “Inherit from” in Organiser. In all cases, also when “Inherit from” is “- None -”, current tab values specified in “Contains” are removed.

OK

Saves all changes and closes dialogue box.

Cancel

Closes dialogue box and discards changes on all tabs. If Apply was used, then changes after the last use of Apply are discarded.