Working with paragraph styles

Chapter 6, “Introduction to Stylesâ€, covers the basics of using paragraph styles. This chapter looks at some advanced properties of paragraph styles and ways that you can use other features in OOo in conjunction with paragraph styles to do specific tasks like:

• Controlling page breaks

• Controlling tab stops

• Specifying a relative font size

• Selecting a language for a paragraph style

• Rotating the text in a paragraph style

• Kerning text (a feature that adjusts the letter spacing to make text more readable)

• Using styles in outlining

• Using conditional paragraph styles