2010/11/4 Craig A. Eddy <[email protected]> > Robert, I'm sorry, but I must > disagree with you.I'm not a developer, I'm a user.I will admit that > I started with Microsoft Word (More years ago than I'm comfortable > admitting), but switched to OO.o as soon as it came out.It's only > just recently that I've begun to understand how to use (and create) > styles because of the complexity and lack of intuitiveness involved.That, > coupled with the gadawful heading and text styles left me with > having to adjust the Microsoft way - manually.I would much rather be > able to set up a style and have a document stick to it than to have to > go through manually and adjust everything just because I made a > change.But, not being a "trained" power-user, the best I can do is > stumble along learning by accident.And, just in the way of introduction, I > have been many things in my > life.In one job, alone (that I held for 15 1/2 years), I was a > self-taught AutoCAD operator, a self-taught webmaster and website > designer, a brochure and flier creator, and the jack-leg systems > administrator that answered such questions as "how do I do this with > this program" (a program with which I was unfamiliar and didn't have > installed on my machine), or "how come my machine keeps slowing > down/crashing" (people just won't learn about viruses).I am looking forward > to LibreOffice as the new freedom from Microsoft > thinking.Craig A. EddyOn 11/04/2010 11:19 AM, Robert Derman wrote:Sebastian > Spaeth wrote:On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:55:19 +0100, Johannes > Bausch wrote:things concerning tables. We absolutely > HAVE to make the user use thestylesheet stuff, and it must be so easy that > they start to use it onone-paged documents.Removing the font chooser, and > font-size selector would save lots ofspace that could be replaced with a > simple style chooser :)Here I have to disagree, non power users are much > more likely to use > the font chooser and size selector than they are to have anything at > all to do with styles. >
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