Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Open Office formatting question

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Posted by rcorporon (Member # 2879) on :

I'm using Open Office 3, and am curious if there is a way to modify the formatting of all of my .odt files at once. I save each chapter as an individual file, but I want to change the font and line spacing for all of the files, and would rather not do them one at a time, if at all possible.

Thanks!

Posted by TaleSpinner (Member # 5638) on :

You would need to use the templates and styles features.

According to the Help system, you can import paragraph styles from one doc into another, so you could set one document up with the formatting you want and import it into the next, and the next, and so on.

Alternatively, you could define a template with the paragraph styles you want and attach it to each doc in turn.

I haven't tried it in Open Office Writer, but in MS Word it's easy after you've spent ages learning how to do it.

[This message has been edited by TaleSpinner (edited February 19, 2009).]