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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 7 08:56:44 -0700 2005 ------- Today while commenting on moving over to OOo, it was raised that lack of Reveal Codes is an issue that is causing the move to be questioned. I notice that many people that are "Pro Styles" have not worked with RC so don't understand the usefulness of this tool. I have used Styles and in many cases, they can be very useful but in many cases, Styles can be a serious pain. Of course I have to have the time to learn how to make fine grain adjustments to the needed style to meet my needs on a particular document. I came across an analogy for RC over Styles or along with Styles. When editting a photo, sometimes a tool that processes the whole photo is great and useful. Some tools give you a finer control over regions of a photo. If you do a repeated procedure over and over, a script can be written to save time and energy. But if you only need to make small changes that are slightly different in each photo, you won't write a script, you will work at a pixel or small region level. This is the same with RC's. RC's give you the ability to make quick small changes without having to write the script to make the changes. It is a pain to be making a one-of document, only to find that you have to create or edit a style to get the correct formatting for two lines out of 7 pages. Another point about reveal codes is you can find hidden formatting that is affecting you printing or importing a document. I have had cases where I have imported a document only to find that I cannot change the formatting to get the document to work in OOo because I cannot find the code that is causing my problem in an "EASY" manner as with reveal codes. I tried Ian Laurenson's macros but had problems installing them in OOo 2.0b. I will keep trying. Now to learn macro editting. FWIW, one happy convert from Word to OOo because of MS's autoformatting headaches but they want reveal codes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
