 Style Templates in Writer. This video shows how to use formatting styles in Writer. Instructions and further information can be found at The basic idea of this video is an exercise entitled Style Formatting Exercise by Ellen Parpe. This file can be downloaded. The previously existing protocol document entitled Protocol Training Data from a Complete Teaching Program was used for this video. The video will show you how to format the protocol document in the best possible manner using formatting styles. To begin, start Writer. Then open the file Protocol Training Data. In the Styles and Formatting drop-down menu, the default style formatting is selected, indicating that the text of the document has the default formatting style. We will now alter this. Pressing the F11 key will bring up the overview of the various formatting styles available. Using the right mouse button, click on Heading and then select New. Click on the Organiser tab and type in the name GLK Top. Select the Font tab and set the font to Arial 14-point Bald. In the Font Effects tab, choose Skyblue2 as the colour. Now choose the Indents and Spacing tab and for Spacing enter, before text 0.4 cm, after text 0.2 cm. Now click on OK. A formatting style can be applied as follows. Place the cursor in the desired area of text and double-click on the formatting style you wish to apply. Select GLK Top from the list of available formats. Double-click on it. Select GLK Top from the list of available formats. Double-click on it. Select GLK Top from the list of available formats. Double-click on it. Select GLK Top from the list of available formats. Double-click on it. Remove any hard line feeds or returns. Using the right mouse button, click on Text Body, then choose New. Click on the Organiser tab and enter the name GLK Text. Set the font to Arial 11-point Regular under the Font tab. Now choose the Indents and Spacing tab. Enter the values in Spacing as before text 0 cm, after text 0.2 cm. Click on OK. Now we are going to format the text with the new formatting style, GLK Text. Play around with the other settings in the Style tabs. Now let's add numbering to our GLK Top formatting style. Using the right mouse button, click on GLK Top and then on Modify. Select the Outline and Numbering tab. Under the List Styles, edit the style to choose a numbering style. Now click on OK. The heading in your document now has a number in front of it. Let's move on to formatting the Protocol Document Header. For this, we'll create a specific header style called Protocol Header. Set up the font type, the direction and spacing as for the previous formatting exercises. We will call this new formatting style Protocol Header. The exercise is deliberately set up in this way. In daily usage, one can avoid some of the steps by applying the formatting style GLK Text to all of the text in the document, then applying the heading styles and finally the header styles. Instructions and further information can be found at...