2007/4/21, Rod Engelsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> while OOo will block any inheritance of styling as soon as you touch >> any attribute in a style > > It blocks the inheritance of the attribute that was changed. It does > not block the inheritence of ather, unchanged attributes. That behavior isn't entirely obvious. It should be made explicit with the use of "Don't Change" options or something similar.
That is really something that I would need. That would make life easier when using conditional formatting, for example. I just want to add that, when switching to OpenOffice.org a few years ago, I found styles to be the big time saver for me, especially when creating big documents. Actually I used styles in Word too before I knew of OpenOffice.org, but I never found it as useful as in Writer. These days I find Word very hard to use, probably because I am not used to it anymore. *Way out of topic (so don't read this unless you are too curious), but still somewhat related:* Actually, last time I wrote something "important", it was a report of some kind. It was not very big, only 29 pages or something like that, but I also needed to have a Word version of it (I would email it as PDF, but in case someone wanted to use it as a base for future documents, I needed to send it in a format so that the document could be edited), so I also saved it as a Word 97/2000/XP document. Then I opened it with Word to make it look exactly like the original document (since the converter is not perfect, but that's another story). Then I found that there was some things I couldn't do at all with Word (I think it was Word XP, but it COULD have been Word 2000), no matter how hard I tried. So using Word only, there was obviously no way I could have created that document exactly the way I wanted to. The problem was not that some formattings disappeared in the "translation", the problem were that it seemed to be impossible to do with Word. One example was the table of contents. I had to remove the original one and create a new one from scratch in Word, since there was just too many issues about it. Of course I could easily create that in Word, but I failed to make it look like the original. The options was just not there in Word, so the new table of contents never looked as good as in the original Writer document. So, styles or not, they seem to work for me. Maybe because I don't think that everything should work as it does in Word. Word is Word, OpenOffice.orgis OpenOffice.org. If you know Word, you might find OpenOffice.org not too intuitive. On the other hand, which at least is true in my case, if you know OpenOffice.org, Word seems to be not too intuitive (as I said, I failed doing such as easy thing as making a table of contents looking exactly like I wanted in Word, but in OpenOffice.org I found it to be very easy). I guess it's all a matter of what we are used to and also a matter of attitude. Do we want to try something different? If so, I guess we should be prepared of that the different thing isn't an exact copy of the old thing. If it was, it wasn't new. So yes, I use styles all the time and I just love it, but there are a lot of things about them to improve. However, just a few improvements (the most important ones) would probably mean a huge improvement to the intuitiveness of the product. I'm truly sorry for using so many words. The reason for it is that my English sucks. There are so many words I don't know, so I have to use the few words I know, which cause this overflow of words. Once again, I'm sorry for that. Johnny Andersson
