How to add a no-fuss “thoughts” custom paragraph style to LibreOffice

This quick and easy guide is mostly for my fellow writers and anyone else who occasionally needs special paragraphs in their document. Imagine this. You’ve just finished the final draft of your 125-page work of genius. In this epic, you showed what your central character was thinking by putting their thoughts in a separate paragraph and formatting them as italics. An agent is interested, but only if you change the way you format those thought paragraphs. If only there were a way to change them all at once. There is – custom paragraph styles. Once set up, you can change all such paragraphs with a few clicks of the mouse. The size of the document is no barrier at all. Readers on the fediverse may want to choose “view on original page” to get the most out of this illustrated guide. Let us start with built-in paragraph styles You are probably familiar with the paragraph format menu found to the left of the toolbar. It is probably where you go to set headings and titles. If you like nicely…