How to apply customized document Designs

How to apply, customize, and manage document designs

Overview

Writer comes with built-in styles sets and themes that lets you unify your document as a whole. You can use these styles to quickly apply a set of formatting options to your entire document in a consistent way.

Prerequisites

  1. Only Org admins can create or update the document designs for Organizations.
  2. Team members can only view or use org document design along with their own saved designs.

Steps

How to apply a preset design

  1. Click Design > Design Gallery > Preset Designs.
  2. Choose a desired design from the Preset Designs to apply to your document.

How to set a design as default

  1. Click Design > Current Design > Set as Default Design.

How to rename a design

  1. Click Design > Current Design > Rename Design.
  2. Enter the design's new name and click Rename.

How to delete a design

  1. Click Design > Design Gallery.
  2. Hover over the design you wish to delete, click More > Delete.
Notes
Only custom designs can be deleted. You cannot delete the preset designs.

How to reset design to Writer default

  1. Click Design > Current Design > Reset to Default.

How to import a design

  1. Click Design > Import Design.
  2. The Import Document Design pop-up will appear. You can choose a document from your desktop, your Writer documents, or enter a Writer document URL or a .doc file URL.

  3. Enter a name for the uploaded design and click on Import Design to import it.

How to create Org Design

  1. Click Design > Design Gallery.
  2. Hover over the design you wish to create as an org design and click More > Copy to Org Design. You can also import your design and copy it is an organizational design.