Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Ah, got you! You mean, it could be that I have created "acm-normal" as a
> paragraph style and "acm-bold" as a character style? I think I really
> want them to be character styles (though I'm not entirely sure).
Yes, you could have done that. or you could have created
both as paragraph styles, or both as character styles.
[Well, there is also the possibility that you created both
as numbering styles, but I suspect you'd be complaining
about something else is that was the case.]
If they are for single words, then you want them as
character styles. If they are for sentences, then you
probably want them as paragraph styles.
> It seems to be in the "object bar": i.e., going to <view>/<toolbars> and
Object bar then. I've customized by toolbars to the point
that they don't bear the faintest resemblance to the stock
installation. (I have no clue what the stock installation
even looks like.)
> Yes. It's a character style, I think. I have no documentation at all
Wander over to OOoAuthors.org, and download the
documentation there.
> manual properly installed on your PC, even if it's HTML, at least you can
> use grep on it to find the juicy bits.
Most OOo documentation for users to download is in ODF or
PDF format. AFAIK, grep doesn't work on either. There are
a couple of tools that claim to index them. [I uninstalled
the only one I tried one day after installing it, because it
was using so much of my RAN & CPU that I couldn't do
anything else.)
> At the moment, I don't have a good understanding of styles.
> I'm trying to use an uninstalled font ("Arial Narrow"), to maintain
Trying to use uninstalled fonts will always give one
problems. Using installed fonts that have a slightly
different name from the one that thinks they have will also
give one problems. [I've got three fonts that are called
"Times New Roman *". ( The asterisk represents the different
suffixes for the name.) When "Times new Roman" is specified
in a style, the results are horrible. (A cross between Comic
Sans and Goudy, with a touch of Black Letter.)
> OK, this is the crunch point. I don't want to spend 100 hours learning
That is my estimation of how long it takes to learn how to
use all of the components of OOo. Styles is the critical
part of using all components other than Base.
> But I just want to write a few letters every now and then, and (my current
> thing) my CV. Are you suggesting that OpenOffice isn't really the right tool
> for the job I need to do?
It will work for what you want to do.
The difference between using styles, and not using styles is
akin to the difference between using a sharp knife, and a
blunt knife to carve meat. Both will do the job, but it is
much easier when the knife is sharp.
> Actually, I don't really want to use styles at all; they feel so heavy and
> bureaucratic.
With styles, you can focus on content, and forget about
appearance, until after the fact. Then you can toss the
styles over the parts you want highlighted., or whatever.
Everything that uses the same style will have the same
attribute. [A very useful advantage when you have a couple
of thousand colours in your colour palette, and you need to
match the exact colour, every time.]
> What I would like is a nice zippy repetitive search and replace;
With styles, you'd simply change the attributes to the ones
that you do want.
> This doesn't seem to be part of OO 1.1.3. Does it exist in later versions?
That is why you need to learn how to use styles. (Well, what
you would do would be to change the font in the style, and
everywhere the style was used, the font would automatically
change.)
xan
jonathon
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