I'm rather talking about a way of joining the manual formatting widgets with the style formatting widgets...in one formatting panel. Ideally it's always visible or easily unfoldable. And even more ideally, it has some simple one or two click way of turning a set of formatting options into a style...or pick a style and change it's attributes. Moreover, it could try to match the currently manually selected formatting options with the existing styles and provide a one-click option to apply the style instead.
Your idea is not too outrageous, I thought of something similar. Word has styles which mix with manual formatting in a single area from the user point of view, that's sortof the answer but they've got it all wrong really. Because what you want is 2 namespaces, one for 'real styles' with names and hierachy, the old fashioned lot. And one for 'pseudo styles' with no names but just reflecting a formatting trend. A user could have a 'pallete' so to speak of any pseudo styles they've already made. And it should be a trivial matter to name a style and turn it into a proper one. But anyway the point of my post was that there is something lacking in the way OOo currently handles the old fashioned styles. Notably that darned inheritance blocking... a user should be able to control that sort of thing. -- Chris Monahan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
