How can I change the fonts and spacing for the default headings and paragraph text in Open Office?

Click Format, then click Styles and Formatting.

The Styles and Formatting window will appear. The drop-down menu at the bottom of the window lets you choose which styles you want to see listed. To see everything, change this to All Styles.

Right-click on the style you would like to edit and choose Modify….

Modify “Heading” to change the default style of all headers. You can then modify “Heading 1″, “Heading 2″ etc… to make changes to the individual levels of headers. Modify “Text”, “Text body” and “Text body indent” to make changes to the formatting of your basic body text.

The next window that opens will be the area where you make changes to the formatting of the particular text style you have chosen. You can modify font, spacing, indenting, alignment and more.

Click the OK button to save your changes. The formatting options will be applied to any existing text, as well new content from this point forward.

The menus and other screenshot content seen in this tutorial were taken from Neo Office 3.0 for Mac OS X.