https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95274
--- Comment #38 from Michael Bauer <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #37) > Why is it impractical to select characters and double-click a character > style from the sidebar or be in a pragraph and double-click a paragraph > style or pick it from the formatting toolbar? To repeat myself: a) few people use styles, especially for shorter documents and even for longer ones, they are rarely in evidence. I proofread a LOT of texts for submission to medical journals, maybe 5% use styles, the rest have ad-hoc formatting applied, even to stuff like headings. They take both time and expertise to use whereas the text size menu and/or bold/italic direct formatting are visibly there, easy and quick to use. No wonder most people just hit pt 14 and bold underline instead of a heading style. It may not be the way word processing software is intended to be used, but it's the reality of how people use it. We can claim the moral high ground and ignore that, or we can try and make it work for as many users as possibly (as far as the proofing language issue goes, I'm NOT suggesting we dump styles). b) it's counter-intuitive. Especially with the document/text language displayed at the bottom of the window, nobody who isn't a LO dev will go looking in the *styles* for a way to change the language their text is proofed in. It's like telling your mom who's baking you a cake that the flour is in the garage freezer. It may be the place where you keep your flour and in some ways perhaps not a bad place for it but it's a) a long way from the kitchen and b) not the place anyone goes looking for flour, not when you have a kitchen larder... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
