Someone pointed me to an exchange on the Australian Technical
Writers' List last Monday, 4 July, started by someone asking
about OOo. Among the responses was this comment, not by me:
>... read the information about Styles before you
>start seriously working with it. Trust me, it will
>help to have an idea of how they work. It's similar
>to Word in some senses, but not particularly
>'intuitive' coming from a Word mindset.
>
>http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/IntroStyles.pdf
Cheers, Jean