Doug, I can provide a macro that does provide an ability to reveal codes
(not written by me), but, sadly, if you don't understand how styles
work, it might not be helpful because it shows things like "this style
begins here".
On 06/22/2013 02:44 PM, Doug wrote:
Maybe it's because we're not programmers. We're people who just want to
use a word processor without all the folderol of "styles."
Well said!
There are some things that if you learn them it will make things work
much easier and faster. I remember about two years ago showing a user in
Word Perfect that they did not need to force a new line break by
inserting a bunch of spaces. It was a "concepts" lesson I suppose. So,
it seems that some things are probably worth your time (like at least
learning a bit about styles, I think that almost every word processor
does support them these days) and some things that probably are not
worth your time (like programming, which although useful, won't really
help you writing documents).
It may not
have occurred to some OO/LO folks that most of us do not want to change
styles or formats all the time. Or, maybe, ever. About the only
formats I ever change are typeface, type size, and justification.
Most of us are not writing advertizing copy, and we're not typesetters.
We have no reason to keep fooling with different "styles."
Ironically, you probably do and are simply unaware that you are. For
example do you ever select some text and click on the "bold" button? If
so, then you just applied a style. That said, I do get your point.
Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes and
apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix all the
damned inch marks one by one by hand. WordPerfect can do that
automatically. Not only that, it can differentiate between quote marks
and real inch and foot designators. Let's see your OO/LO do that!
I am not sure what this is since I have never had any particular
difficulty dealing with these things.... though I am not sure how one
can understand that a particular single quote is an "inch mark" as
opposed to a non-curly double quote.
If I remember correctly--I haven't looked at OO/LO in some time--they
don't let you find and replace double spaces. Maybe they fixed that?
Don't think it ever could not do that, which tells me that I clearly do
not understand the question.
But I tend to work in Linux most often, so without WordPerfect, I have
chosen the SoftMaker products. TextMaker works better, IMO, than either
of the freebies, and it doesn't look so primitive, either. Oh, and
there's now a free version of that, I hear.
Never heard of it until now. Looks like they are MSO friendly, not WP
friendly. Interesting that it can run directly from a USB drive and
states it is macro compatible.
It's hopeless, folks. OO/LO have decided for you that if you want to use
them, you will have to get a book on style-programming. Enjoy!
No, but it does help. When I use MSO at work, I need to use styles as
well. Can't say as though I have used them in WP, but I hear that they
do support them.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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