On 2024-03-27 10:10, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
...
Well, it seems I found a better, more elegant solution.
Only a few days I discovered "by accident" the tiny three horizontal
bars in the upper right corner of the 'side panel'.
If you click on those, a number of options appear, the first of which
is "properties".
HERE the funny attributes of the style (ONE incident!) that went
haywire were displayed and could be changed!
That was all.
Isn't it funny, nobody ever mentioned this little trick?
That entire UI feature is known as the the Sidebar [1]. It hosts a
framework of 'Decks' that can be collapsed or expanded.
And each deck can contain multiple 'Content panels'. Navigation to the
Decks is via the vertical Tab bar--the top button is the 'Properties'
deck.
A picture is worthwhile so see this Wiki image over to grasp the
terminology and layout [2]
The Sidebar has several viewing modes Shown, Hidden, Collapsed to vert
Tab bar, or undocked to float--controlled from the "hamburger" icon
you'd clicked. Sounds like you'd had it collapsed to its vertical tab
bar.
The 'Spotlight' checkbox mentioned earlier appears on the SB 'Styles'
Deck, directly reachable via shortcut <F11>. While at present (24.2 and
24.8 builds) the 'Character Direct Formatting' is only available on the
main toolbar 'Format' -> 'Spotlight' menu.
But the associated UNO commands can be assigned via the menu Tools ->
Customize to other Menu, Toolbar, Context-menu, or Keyboard shortcuts.
Relevant UNO commands are:
.uno:SpotlightParaStyles (since 24.2)
.uno:SpotlightCharStyles (since 24.2)
.uno:HighlightCharDF (since 7.6)
Also the SB delivers the 'Style Inspector' Deck, kind of a new feature.
It follows the position of the Edit cursor in the document and lists the
Paragraph, Character style applied at the cursor position. It also will
list any Direct Formatting applied (to character or to paragraph).
Unfortunately at present it does not provide the same colored visual
hints as the 'Spotlight' widgets. But it is still useful especially if
you get more advanced in working with styling your documents.
Stuart
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[1]
https://help.libreoffice.org/24.2/en-US/text/shared/01/menu_view_sidebar.html?&DbPAR=SHARED&System=WIN
[2]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LO-HIG_SideeBar-Terminology.png
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