As Bradley Dilger pointed out at an open source workshop during the 2007 Computers and Writing conference last summer, OpenOffice's implementation of styles is one of its strong points in comparison to Microsoft Word. Fortunately for those who are new to OpenOffice, Free Software Magazine's Dmitri Popov has created a tutorial for Creating a book template with Writer. This step by step guide is a good introduction for styles even if one is not trying to create a whole book.