Spotlight Styles

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# Styles Spotlighting

The styles spotlight in LibreOffice Writer gives a visual indicator of styles and direct formatting present in the document.

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#### From the sidebar:

Open the Styles deck, mark Spotlight check box.

Use the styles spotlight to inspect usage of styles and direct formatting in the document.

The Spotlight visual indicator is codified using numbers and colors. The feature shows direct formatting for characters and paragraphs.

Direct formatting text is indicated by a hatch pattern in the Spotlight colored indicators on the margin.

Spotlight character direct formatting visual indication is a call-out with string "df" next to the text with direct formatting.

The Spotlight feature can visualize paragraphs and characters styles only.

When the extended tips features is enabled in LibreOffice - PreferencesTools – Options – LibreOffice – General, a tooltip shows the style name and many attributes of the style applied.

Paragraph direct formatting is indicated in two ways: by a hatch pattern in the coloured indicators and by the text "+ Paragraph Direct Formatted" added to the name of the style.

## Character Direct Formatting

To enable character direct formatting spotlight, go to menu Styles - Spotlight Character Direct Formatting

When enabled, the Character Direct Formatting feature indicates direct character formatting by a lightgray text "df" call-out and by lightgray highlight.

Use command Clean direct formatting (CommandCtrl + M) to remove character direct formatting of the paragraph.

The Clean Direct Formatting command only cleans character attributes of paragraphs. Other attributes such as manual lists are not cleaned.

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Refer to Styles for more information about Style Categories and Style Groups

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