Hi Jean-Francois
Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote > Yes, for sure. But changing a style is extensive: the changes apply > throughout the document, whereas a local format is, well, local. > IOW, changing a style is worth the few extra clicks, if any and setting > direct formatting is actually requiring many more clicks You don't need to explain to me the advantages of styles vs direct formatting. But your argument fails in one small detail: it is only valid if the user wants to CHANGE the formatting at a later stage. Otherwise it is MUCH faster to use direct formatting. Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote > (you forgot to multiply the local formatting clicks by the number of local > settings). No, I didn't. Example: if you want to change a word to Bold you just press the B button. If you create a Bold word style you still need to select the word, switch to the Styles and Formatting sidebar, click on the "Character Styles", locate the "Strong Emphasis" style in the list (which is very unlikely to be found for two reasons: it doesn't contain the word Bold, which is probably what a new user is looking for AND it isn't sorted alphabetically, which makes it even harder to find...) And you have to do this for every word regardless of using direct formatting or styles. So from an UX perspective, LO still has a long way to go if it wants to sell the Styles approach... To be honest the Microsoft approach is much more efficient: when you press the Bold button, the Style is automatically changed to Normal+Bold which allows you to modify the Style for all Bold word at a later stage... Maybe LO should make the buttons have the same effect? From a user perspective it is applying a direct formatting but in the background it is creating and applying Styles... Just my 2 cents ;) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-ux-advise-some-thoughts-on-the-Sidebar-tp4073014p4074765.html Sent from the UX-Advise mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise
