Important: before applying this procedure, remove all direct formatting with Ctrl+ M. They bear the same name because they are frequently paired, but this is not mandatory. Note: Confusingly, the List 1 paragraph style and the List 1 selected from the drop-down menu are two different styles. (This turns paragraph style List 1 into a style-for-making-lists.) Click OK Go to the Outline & Numbering tab and select style List 1 from the Numbering drop-down menu. This is the crucial part of the procedure. In the Organiser tab, make it depend on Boxed text. Give style Boxed Text to all paragraphs you want surrounded by a border.įor the bulleted list, customize buil-in style List 1. In the Organizer tab, call it Boxed text and make it depend on Body Text. If your text is not entirely boxed, created a new paragraph style as a “child” of Body Text. Styles are available in the style side panel ( F11). Nevertheless, I found a solution based on style hierarchy (one style inherits from another). This defines something like an “anonymous” style despite the fact that the displayed name remains the same, but internally LO handles it as a new independent style.īorders do not collapse between different styles. you modify attributes with the menus or toolbar buttons. However, things become nasty when you tweak the paragraph with direct formatting, i.e. As long as you use paragraph styles from your collections, it is easy to tell whether two styles are the same: the name is the same.

Now, what is identical styles needs to be defined. When several paragraphs sharing the same style follow each other, their borders collapse into a single border around the group.

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