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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Wed Jul 1 04:54:29 +0000 2009 ------- comments from zak_mckracken Mon 2009 Jun 29 ------- I see two problems: Sometimes I _do_ want to change a document's style regardless of what it was equal to once. ***Solution: create a new style (and keep the old one) >Sometimes I want to send a document around, and I want it to look on other people's computers like it did on mine. ***Solution: have an option to save doc with template, and send the combination. However, the attached template submits to the original stored in the template repository: if the latter is 'visible' --say, on the same drive--, the template attached to the document will be updated when the document is re-loaded for edit. (This won't happen on another computer where you have sent your document. Each template should be identified by an internal key, in case the 'other' computer happens to have, in its own repository, a template with the same name.) >A solution to the problem: Linked styles. [...] choose to either copy or link them. If you link them, a copy is still made, but only for emergency, should the original file be amiss. ***I disagree. Backup should be used for saving files (be they documents, templates, or whatever, in case they 'go amiss'), So, simplify your suggestion, and it becomes good: LINK templates to documents. (The user does not even have to choose between copying or linking.) The template organizer will just establish, or sever, links to templates. But there will be no template copies --except in backup files, or as secondary attachments to a document, to make it autonomous. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
