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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 6 05:24:00 +0000 2007 ------- "different domains of those that prefer reveal codes and those that prefer styles" That's simply because those (from the different domains) don't understand that the 2 things are separate & complimentary. If you've used WP's styles you'd see that they even implement the RC inside the styles editor. This I've used to make those table of contents (etc.) work properly, as you sometimes find (in WP) that the bold or font size gets brought with the heading. With the styles editor's RC you can place the TOC Open marker just after the formatting & the TOC Close marker just after the text - so only the text gets copied to the TOC. True, OOo doesn't need this particular scenario as it never copies the formating to the TOC & the TOC gets formatted separately. But, wouldn't it be great if you could make a thing work EXACTLY the way you intend, instead of this hit-and-mis approach? "What she writes today will be formatted differently than what she writes tomorrow" Yes and with Styles it would be a simple change to reformat an existing document. RC would not make you work more efficiently if you are reformatting from scratch, except that it would show you where there are erroneous formatting. Where RC REALLY helps is when you've got several docs combined or starting from a corruptly formatted document. "Styles takes some time to learn. Most home users want and use a word processing program for those one-time documents and will never need or use have the tools of styles. Shouldn't these peoples needs be addressed?" Uhhmmmm ... if they don't use styles because it's just a once off thing, I think they're not really power-users and thus wouldn't even know of RC. "Removing all formatting and then using styles is not an option." I agree, it is simply a waste of time. Unfortunately this is the only method of getting rid of "nearly" all formatting errors in OOo. If you combine the use of Styles & RC in WP you see that this type of thing becomes a breeze in comparison. If you only use one or the other (Style or RC) you're not making it that much easier for yourself. "The reveal codes function should not only reveal the formating codes, but allow the user select them, change them and copy and paste them." Yes! In total agreement there. Having just a code viewer is probably better than what's available know, but it would be like aiming for the outside ring on the target instead of trying for a bull's eye. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
