Hi, > I would like to see OOo writer have the option of turning styles off > completely at times and having totally manual formatting.
what for? I would suggest quite the opposite... Remove all manual formatting and instead provide some kind of formatting palette which is always style bound and has all the manual options. This way you can work as if you'd do manual formatting, but actually create and change styles much more easily. André.
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