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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Applying Styles in Fill Format Mode</title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" 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>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3145084" role="heading" level="1"><variable id="stylist_fillformat"><link href="text/swriter/guide/stylist_fillformat.xhp">Applying Styles in Fill Format Mode</link>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" 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 window.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156114" role="listitem">Choose <emph>View - Styles</emph>.</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153128" role="listitem">Click the icon of the style category that you want to apply.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" 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 xml-lang="en-US" id="alt_id3149644">Icon</alt>
	</image> in the <item type="menuitem">Styles</item> window.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" 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>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154263" role="listitem">Press <item type="keycode">Esc</item> when finished.</paragraph>
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