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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sun Mar 14 07:40:30 +0000 2010 ------- Various URLs, such as http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Using_Page_Styles, suggest that you can apply a page style to a page by double-clicking on the style in the Page style panel, or by using the paint can and dragging it to a page, or by right-clicking on the page style that shows on the bottom of the window and choosing the style you want. This simply does not work for page styles. This breaks the affordance of the style mechanism that applies everywhere else in Ooo. It is counter-intuitive. You can close this bug as "working as designed", but that ignores the fact that the usability of this feature is very low. To be anle to use the feature as designed, users have to learn that there is an invisible chain of page styles, which you can only determine by bringing up the page style inspector and looking to see what page style it is set to use as the Next page. Then they have to learn that inserting a manual page break also provides them the option of setting the initial page style for the new chain of pages that they are starting. They have to learn that they can only set the page style of the first page in a chain, and the way they start a chain is by inserting a manual page break. Page chains are not visible in the UI, although pages are. The fact that a manual page break has been inserted is basically an invisible and I think undiscoverable aspect of the document. So, yes, this feature *is* working as you've designed, and yes, it has powerful uses and is very appealing once you have learned it - but the feature is invisible and almost undiscoverable in a document, and I imagine this feature would be a major reason why many people give up on using OOo and revert to using MS Word, or deciding to invest the effort to learn the new UI of the new "ribbon" MS Word, even if they hate it. I consider this powerful feature to be a major usability failing of OOo. It needs a UI redesign. luke --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
