How to Apply, Customize, and Manage Document Designs

How to Apply, Customize, and Manage Document Designs

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.

Apply a design

We have a number of professional built-in style sets for you to choose from. Once your document is ready, format documents using these style sets and make it look more professional.
To apply a preset design to your document,
  1. Click the hamburger menu  > Design pane.
  2. Click the drop-down arrow under Design Gallery.
  3. Choose a desired design from the Preset Designs to apply to your document.

Set a design as default

You can use a style set and set it as default. Whenever you open a new document, the style you selected will be set as default.

  1. Click the hamburger menu  > Design pane.
  2. Click the drop-down arrow under Design Gallery. The available theme designs will be displayed.
  3. Locate the desired design, click on the More button, and choose Set as Default.

Edit a design

To edit the document design,

  1. Click the hamburger menu  > Design pane.
  2. Choose the desired style set from the available designs under "Edit Design". Hover your mouse to see a preview of each style set and click on it to apply the design. You can also change the font sets and color sets to suit your needs.

Rename a design

To rename a style set,

  1. Click the hamburger menu  > Design pane.
  2. Click the drop-down arrow under Design Gallery. The available theme designs will be displayed.
  3. Locate the desired design, click on the More button, and choose Rename Design.



  4. Enter a name in the pop-up that follows and hit Rename.

Delete a design

You can delete the custom style set, whenever necessary.

To delete a style set,

  1. Click the hamburger menu  > Design pane.
  2. Click the drop-down arrow under Design Gallery. The available theme designs will be displayed.
  3. Locate the desired design, click on the More button, and choose Delete



Notes
Please note that only custom designs can be deleted. You cannot delete the preset designs.

Reset design to Writer default

  1. Click the hamburger menu  > Design pane.
  2. Click the drop-down arrow under Design Gallery. The available theme designs will be displayed.
  3. Click Reset Design to default. The default design will be set and this set default style will be applied to all future documents.

Import a design

  1. Click the hamburger menu  > Design pane.
  2. Click on 'Import from' option under Import Design.

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

Info

Supported file formats: MS Word Document (.docx)

Maximum file size allowed: 10MB

Create Org Designs

Alert
Important note: 
  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.
There are two ways for the admin to create organization designs

Option 1:
  1. Click the hamburger menu  > Design pane.
  2. Go to Design Gallery > My Designs.
  3. Click on the desired design and go to Options.
  4. Select Copy to Org Designs.


Option 2:
Import design and copy the same to Org Design


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