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# Edit Style

Opens the Paragraph Style dialog box of the current paragraph.

To access this command...

#### From the menu bar:

Choose Styles - Edit Style.

#### From the context menu:

Choose Paragraph - Edit Style.

#### From the tabbed interface:

Choose Home, and double click on the style name highlighted.

#### From toolbars:

Edit Style

#### From the keyboard:

OptionAlt + P

#### From the sidebar:

Select the Style panel (F11), choose Paragraph Styles, open context menu of the selected style, choose Edit Style.

## General

Set the options for the selected style.

## Indents and Spacing

Sets the indenting and the spacing options for the paragraph.

## Alignment

Sets the alignment of the paragraph relative to the margins of page.

## Text Flow

Specify hyphenation and pagination options.

## Asian Typography

Set the typographic options for cells or paragraphs in Asian language files. To enable Asian language support, choose Languages and Locales - General in the Options dialog box, and then select the Asian box in the Default Languages for Documents area. The Asian typography options are ignored in HTML documents.

## 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.

## Outline & List

Adds or removes outline level, list style, and line numbering from the paragraph or paragraph style. You can also restart or modify the start number for numbered lists and line numbering.

## Tabs

Set the position of a tab stop in a paragraph.

## Drop Caps

Formats the first letter of a paragraph with a large capital letter, that can span several lines. The paragraph must span at least as many lines as you specify in the Lines box.

## Area (Background, Highlighting)

Set the fill options for the selected drawing object or document element.

## Transparency

Set the transparency options for the fill that you apply to the selected object.

## Borders

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

## Condition

Define conditions for conditional styles here.

### Reset

Resets changes made to the current tab to those applicable when this dialog was opened.

Related Topics

Styles menu