On 05/13/2014 10:31 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 00:13 13/05/2014 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
... the stuffy answers came back and said you have to use "styles," ...
Styles are an important and attractive feature of OpenOffice. Any
recommendation of them is surely helpful; it's difficult to see how
that can be described as "stuffy".
... which is a giant ball of wax.
Er, perhaps not to those who appreciate them.
In other words, even if you could see what was happening, you could
not change it "on the fly," ...
/snip/
You could only change it if you messed with "styles," which is what I
said. You couldn't just arbitrarily change one thing, like you can in
WordPerfect, or many
other word processors or editors.
What a humongous mess!
It's odd that you should choose to use a product that you apparently
dislike so much. But chacun à son goût. It's probably worth saying
that any skill needs some time and effort to achieve, of course. Those
who have learned about styles will tell you how flexible they are.
Brian Barker
Basically, I _don't_ use the product. LO came installed in my distro,
but I have found other word-processors, including WordPerfect12, that
works on a 32-bit
system, and Free Office Text Maker, a free version of a commercial
product made in Germany. As far as I'm concerned they work better than
LO or OO,
altho the old WP probably can't read the latest Microsoft formats. I
have never seen anything as _in_flexible as OO/LO! I find "styles" to
be a strait-jacket I
don't wish to wear!
--doug
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