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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 26 22:27:04 -0800 2006 ------- I've been watching this topic for some time. What I've noticed is that the WP proponents haven't mentioned that WP has styles functionality (at least comparable to Word) - that is until erics mentioned that the Styles & RC are complimentary rather than opponents. I was using styles extensively since the mid 90's, but can't imagine that I would like to not use RC as well. OOo pleasantly surprised me by including a more controllable & comprehensive styles function, but I still miss the reveal codes - here's the reasons: 1. Doing a copy & paste between documents (or even within the same document) you could easily select the text and miss an (or more) opening and / or closing format tag(s). When you now paste at a new position - this could cause format corruption. Try finding the "offending" (or rather half-done) code becomes a pain - especially if you've copied a large amount of text & graphics. 2. As mentioned in a previous post - you could remove the formatting & then re-do. Unfortunately this is a total waste of time, as the formatting could take much more out of your busy day than finding the offending tag & deleting / editing it. I.e. instead of removing all formatting & redoing - just repair the error - usually one or two tags, whereas redoing could become hundreds of user operations. 3. Has anyone ever tried adding text after a formatting end (say after a bold word)? With RC you can position the cursor to exactly where you want so that the bold is continued or not as per your desire - not the program's. 4. Creating page-breaks could cause formatting past the next page ... this I've found happens very often when using styles. Say you've got a Heading3 style on the first line of the next page. Whether the style itself places a page-break or you do it manually - OOo nearly always makes the last line on the current page also Heading3, and it's very difficult to remove. If you don't remove this Formatting you will then always end up with a large blank line at the end of the page - usually not a problem, but when you want to even out your pages this causes hassles. With WP's RC I could place the page-break exactly before the Heading3 tag & all this would be sorted. 5. The biggest pro for RC to me, was the RC inside the style editor - as here you could place the formatting codes for that style in the correct order - as per the page-break in the previous point. In OOo you don't have that type of control. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
