https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46550
Bug #: 46550
Summary: FORMATTING Styles Editing is cumbersome and confusing
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: LibO 3.5.0 Release
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
So, I've been working on ditching MS Office and moving completely over to LibO.
As a professional, I take a lot of notes in my continuing ed classes, which of
course requires a lot of repetitive formatting.
MS Office makes this somewhat of a breeze to make "pretty" documents. It has
"Quick Styles" which let you easily change the basic look of the document (set
styling for title/headers).
In LibO, this is a giant pain. It comes with no built options (fine as a
default), but has no ability to have a set of "style sets". I can import them
from another doc or template, but then I don't have the fine grain to really
just select the parts I want other than "text", "frame", "page", etc.
Also, editting the styles is also over complex, i.e., lacking a UX. To even get
to the styling menu, I have to pull the F11 styling window, then actually find
the style I want. Then right click, then edit it in a separate pop-up window
with multiple tabs. Rinse and repeat.
One thing LibO does better is to be able to have a list style created as a
style, and then be able to apply the same one everywhere. MS Office only has a
"continue previous list" option if you want something other than the built in
choices (from what I've seen).
Enhancement Request:
1a) add something like Quick Styles for basic formatting styles
or
1b) add some what to actually see what you're going to be pulling in from an
import of styles or show the conflicts in stead of just "no overwrite" or
"overwrite"
2) add a styles UI
i) add a preview of the style as you're creating it so you can see the spacing,
color, margins, etc. as you're working on it. You can do this with font
already, but not with the other parts. It could have a single preview all the
options (using the page margin graphics from a normal document so you could see
the edges of the "box" you're creating).
ii) could integrate the list/bullet stuff into this styles UI, which has it's
own mini-preview, but under a different window.
3) change name of some of default styles
As I was looking through the bugs/discussion of styles looking for info,
someone who seemed to know what they were talking about said to never alter
"default" other than for font family and size because everything else cascades
off of then; he also said to use "text body" for all of your actual text.
However, when you start a new document, default comes up as the first style
being used. If I'm just typing away, and not using headers, then I never see
"Text Body" pop up as the current default style. Plus, if you go back and do
headers later, it doesn't fix the text after it to be "text body".
Again, coming from MS Office, "Default" is used there as only default from
before Office 2007 for single spaced, no space between paragraphs/carriage
returns. In LibO, default is the base style. It might be helpful to change it
"Base", or "Parent" and change the default style when you open a document to be
"Text Body". And it might be helpful to limit options or least warn when
editing "Default" about the huge effects it can have.
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