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         <title id="tit">Applying Styles in Fill Format Mode</title>
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<bookmark branch="index" id="bm_id3145084"><bookmark_value>fill format mode</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>copying; styles, by fill format mode</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>brush for copying styles</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>styles; transferring</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>formats; copying and pasting</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>text formats; copying and pasting</bookmark_value>
</bookmark><comment>mw changed "copying;"</comment>
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      <paragraph id="par_id3155855" role="paragraph">You can quickly apply styles, such as paragraph and character styles, in your document by using the Fill Format Mode in the Styles deck.</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3156114" role="listitem">Choose <emph>View - Styles</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3153128" role="listitem">Click the icon of the style category that you want to apply.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3145090" role="listitem">Click the style, and then click the <item type="menuitem">Fill Format Mode</item> icon
<image id="img_id3149644" src="cmd/sc_fillstyle.png" width="0.1665in" height="0.1665in"><alt id="alt_id3149644">Icon</alt>
	</image> in the <item type="menuitem">Styles</item> window.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3153371" role="listitem">Move the mouse pointer to where you want to apply the style in the document, and click. To apply the style to more than one item, drag to select the items, and then release.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3154263" role="listitem">Press <item type="keycode">Esc</item> when finished.</paragraph>
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         <paragraph id="par_id3159259" role="paragraph"><link href="text/swriter/01/05140000.xhp">Styles</link></paragraph>
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