How to save a set of styles for use in other document

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Concepts in LibreOffice are a bit different from M$ Word. There is no feature to “save” styles in a style sheet but you can proceed differently.

  1. Manual procedure (one shot)

After creating a New document (or in an old document where you want to change styles), select the Format → Styles & Formatting... to display the sidebar (or hit F11).

You have a drop down menu at the top right of the icon tool bar (small down pointing arrow).

Select Load styles ...

In the dialog, click on the check boxes for the required styles, then hit From file... to choose from which document you want to import style.

  1. Automatic procedure

Create a document with the required styles, page layouts, default initial content, …

Save it as a template.

Read the documentation about the location where this template becomes fully integrated with LO.

Next time you need the recorded styles, double click on the template. It will give you a new untitled document with the content you saved.

To use File → New → Template, your template .ott document must be stored at a specific location (in a specific directory). This location depends on your OS. Read the manual on template management (File → Templates → Manage) or have a look at Tools → Options, then LibreOffice → Paths to get an idea on where to manually store the template if you do not ask LO to “manage” them.

When a user-template is integrated in LO, any change to it may be forwarded automatically to dependent documents (next time they are opened for edition).

No Load Styles here (LO Calc 5.1.6.2). The styles window has an icon bar with “Cell styles” and “Page styles” on the left, and “Fill Format Mode”, “New…”, “Update Style” on the right. And an icons column on the right. But I see no Load Styles anywhere.

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@Albert25: the question was related to Writer, not Calc. Styles in Calc are quite different from those in Writer and far less elaborate.