[pantherman]

In the drawer on the left, towards the bottom, you'll see some lines -

All Level 1 rows
All Level 2 rows
All Level 3 rows
etc..


If you select just the line that says, for example, "All Level 2 rows", well, all Level 2 rows in your document will be selected, even if you have hundreds of them and they aren't immediately visible. Then, you can just clear the style on all those hundreds of rows by ctrl-clicking on the line, "All Level 2 rows" and selecting "CLEAR STYLE".

So if your Level 2 rows had "Underline" and "Bold" as part of the Level 2 Style, this will be cleared out.

Careful, though. Clearing the Style will destroy ALL styling and revert the row back to Helvetica. If you just want to make small changes, after selecting the "All Level 2 rows" line, just go to the inspectors which open up on the right (usually) and deselect Underline or Bold from there. This will leave all other aspects of the styles in place.

Styles rock. If you think just a little beforehand about how you want your document to look, with headers, subheaders, body text etc, just like in a word processor, you can get the same effect in OO. Then, you can write entire documents in OO and let the formatting take care of itself real-time.

The difference between OO and word processors with styles, however, is just what you experienced, the ease with which you can move around text from one "level" to the other and the immediated changes in appearance that result. Just tabbing a selected row changes the level and therefore, the style changes immediately, whereas in a word processor, you have to manually change the style associated with any selected block of text, if you want to change "levels".