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Proceed as follows:
1. Set up the paragraph format (indents, line spacing, alignment, etc.) of one or
more paragraphs to your liking.
2. Place the caret inside one of these paragraphs (or select the paragraphs; either
will do).
3. As described above, use the Format > Paragraph Style command to create a
new paragraph style. However, in this case use the New from text button rather
than the New button.
A paragraph style created this way will behave like any other paragraph style. The
only difference is that its original paragraph format is based on the selected text. Of
course you can change its formatting options anytime.
The “Next Style” option – or: Which style should be applied to the next
paragraph?
Whenever you close a paragraph by pressing the Enter key (¢), that paragraph’s
style is automatically carried over to the next paragraph.
This is the normal case; however, it is sometimes inconvenient. For example,
headings usually consist of just a single line followed by normal text, and when
you have typed a heading, you usually want to revert to the “Normal” style.
Therefore, for every paragraph style you can specify the style to be applied to the
next paragraph once the current paragraph is closed by pressing (¢). To do this,
switch to the Style property sheet in the dialog for editing the style. There, select
the desired following style in the Next Style option – according to our example it
would be the “Normal” style.
Using keyboard shortcuts
If you need a format style very frequently, you can give it a keyboard shortcut. The
advantage of doing that is that you can then apply the style very quickly, using a
single key press.
To assign a keyboard shortcut to a style, switch to the Style property sheet in the
dialog for editing the style. There, position the text cursor in the Shortcut key edit
box and press the desired key combination.
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