https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163123
Bug ID: 163123
Summary: Trouble with similar styles from the template when
cooperating with others who use different language
versions
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
If several people are working on a shared document and they are using different
language versions of LO Writer, then it is easy to accumulate several versions
of the same template in a document. This is because the predefined template
names are named in different language versions, e.g. “Preformatted
Text”-"Vorformatiert", “Source Text”-"Quelltext" etc.
It is good advice to use as few different prototypes as possible. Therefore
multiplying instances one and the same thing is counterproductive!
Unfortunately, you cannot rename the name of a style sheet element: The field
responsible for this in the Edit Style > General > Name dialogs is
unfortunately greyed out.
If this were not the case, a lot would have been gained.
Of course, it would be even better if there was something to edit style sheets
on a large scale with the options:
* replace one style element with another anywhere in the document (this would
allow you to merge several similar ones, currently one can achieve this with
AltSearch.oxt, but it is very very slow and does not work in tables)
* If you could edit the template elements in table form: rows=template element,
columns: their properties - perhaps even with an *.ott file. Maybe something
like this already exists?
* lock existing template elements in a document (so that they are no longer
offered for selection),
* determine the hierarchy of templates (e.g. if variants only differ in one or
two aspects)
Steps to Reproduce:
Work on a document in an English and another language version.
Assign some standard templates in each of them.
Actual Results:
among applied styles, similar style names in different languages appear.
Expected Results:
That's natural, but is a nuisance, because you can't fix it in Edit Styles >
General > Name: This field is greyed out!
I would be happy if it were not greyed out. But one also needs something to
merge prototypes!
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: f9b5dad09dbdd56ff064096695a946b03e9e2914
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
But this enhancement request is not version specific!
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