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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Creating New Styles From Selections</title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3155911"><bookmark_value>styles; creating from selections</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>drag and drop;creating new styles</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>copying;styles, from selections</bookmark_value>
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                 oldref="34"><variable id="stylist_fromselect"><link href="text/swriter/guide/stylist_fromselect.xhp" name="Creating New Styles From Selections">Creating New Styles From Selections</link>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149829" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U"
                 oldref="35">To Create a New Style From a Manually Formatted Selection</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156097" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="36">Choose <emph>Format - Styles and Formatting</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153402" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="42">Click the icon of the style category that you want to create.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153119" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="37">Click in the document where you want to copy the style from, for example, in a paragraph that you applied manual formatting to.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153138" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="38">Click the arrow next to the <item type="menuitem">New Style from Selection</item> icon and choose <item type="menuitem">New Style from Selection</item>
               <emph/>from the submenu</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156260" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="43">Type a name in the <item type="menuitem">Style Name</item>
               <emph/>box.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154411" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="44">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3153373" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U"
                 oldref="20">To Create a New Style by Drag-And-Drop</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154233" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="31">Choose <emph>Format - Styles and Formatting</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154258" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="45">Click the icon of the style category that you want to create.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154851" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="32">Select at least one character, or object, in the style that you want to copy. For page and frame styles, select at least one character or object in the page or frame.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154871" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="33">Drag the character or object to the Styles and Formatting window and release.</paragraph>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN107B2" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">For paragraph and character styles, you can drag-and-drop onto the respective icon in the Styles and Formatting window. You do not need to open that style category in advance.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN107B5" role="note" l10n="NEW">You can also drag-and-drop a frame into the Styles and Formatting window to create a new frame style: Click the frame, wait a moment with the mouse button pressed down, but without moving the mouse, then drag to the Styles and Formatting window and drop the frame onto the Frame Styles icon.</paragraph>
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         <embed href="text/swriter/guide/stylist_fillformat.xhp#stylist_fillformat"/>
         <embed href="text/swriter/guide/stylist_update.xhp#stylist_update"/>
         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149988" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="40"><link href="text/swriter/01/05140000.xhp" name="Styles and Formatting">Styles and Formatting</link></paragraph>
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