And your not even involving columns and tables, etc., yet! A page can get very complex.
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Martin Groenescheij < mar...@groenescheij.com> wrote: > For me personally I worked with Styles for about three decades and find > this the best way to control my documents. > > Nevertheless we should not be blind for the needs of others, managing > Styles has a long learning curve and someone can make many mistakes before > he master Styles. > > Where someone can fall into the trap is the complexity of inherited > properties from parent Styles. > Even if you are an expert in Style formats you come into problems when you > have to combine documents which are originated from different persons. > > Users tend to ask for something they are familiar with instead of > expressing their problem, they ask for "Reveal Codes" but what they need is > something like "Reveal my Mistakes with Styles" or better "Help me to Avoid > Making Mistakes". > > One of the simple things that could help users is information of each > property within a Style that shows from which Style > the property is inherited e.g. Heading 1 inherit properties from Style > Heading and Style Heading inherit properties from > Style Default. Displaying this information either in the Style and > Formatting Toolbar or in the Sidebar will help to analyze > the formatting issues. > > > Heading 1 > Font > Font Inherited from Heading > Typeface Bold > Size 115% > Language Inherited from Default > Font Effects > Font Color Inherited from Default > Effects Inherited from Default > Relief Inherited from Default > Outline Inherited from Default > Shadow Inherited from Default > Blinking Inherited from Default > Hidden Inherited from Default > Overlining Inherited from Default > Striketrough Inherited from Default > Underlining Inherited from Default > Alignment > Left Inherited from Default > Right Inherited from Default > Center Inherited from Default > Justified Inherited from Default > Indent and Spacing > Before Text 0.76 > After Text Inherited from Default > First Line -0.76 > Automatic Inherited from Default > Above paragraph Inherited from Heading > Below paragraph Inherited from Heading > Line Spacing Inherited from Default > Active Inherited from Default > > > > On 13-5-2014 11:06, Sarala Lee wrote: > >> Sir / Madam, >> For many years I used WordPerfect as my Word Processor and >> Desktop Publisher to produce a 12 page newsletter. I have never found a >> better program. As I now have iMac I use Openoffice and have found that >> satisfies most of my requirements. >> However there is one very important property (if that's the right >> word) that WP had that is missing from all the Word Processors that I have >> used. That is what WP called "Reveal Codes", where every change that was >> made in the document was shown by a particular code. e.g.: Hard return was >> "HRT". If this was not what was wanted then you could make the change you >> required. Or as sometimes happens in OpenOffice, something happens which I >> don't understand, I have no way of finding out why. >> Would it be possible to incorporate this feature in OpenOffice? >> It would enhance this program's appeal to me and, I'm sure to many others >> who still hanker for the user friendliness of WP. >> Gordon Lee. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> >> >
