On Thursday 07 September 2006 07:54, Johnny Andersson wrote:
So the bottom line is, that every new style I create and every
predefined
style I modify, is saved within that particular document and nowhere
else?
Of course. Otherwise any change to a style you make would make all your
existing documents change their format. Is that what you would want?
I was a long-term user of Ami Pro, the first word processor to strongly
support styles (and many other features that until then were the domain of
desktop publishing software), and was eventually bought by Lotus.
It gave two options of how to store the style information:
1. Every time you changed the formatting of a style, it would change the
external style sheet to which the document is attached. This would also
affect the formatting of every other document that used the style sheet.
2. You could embed the formatting in the document, so that any changes to
styles only affected that document.
Option 1 was the default setting, and very useful, although it did
sometimes have unforseen consequences. Sometimes a document you weren't
expecting to be affected by a style change was. And worse, sometimes I
backed up a document, but not the style sheet, and when I looked at the
document months or years later on an new computer, it had lost all
formatting information.
But it was also very useful. If I was working on a collection of documents
(e.g. a set of training manuals), the formatting would always be
consistent over all manuals. Any improvements I made to a style in one
document was automatically passed on to all other documents in the set.
Very, very useful.
And there were also some useful utilities if you embedded the styles in
the document, so that you could "export" some or all of the style changes
you made to the external style sheet, or "import" some or all of the style
changes that have been made to the external style sheet into your document.
I started using Ami Pro in the very early 90's (when I was using Windows
3.0), and very quickly learned to love styles. That is also one of the
reasons I love and use OpenOffice.org. I think that the use of styles is
one of the most powerful and time saving features in word processing when
it comes to formatting.
I just thought it would be interesting to describe the two of the ways
that styles can be done, and maybe that helps to clarify the original
poster's question.
Adrian
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