On Sat, 17 May 2014 00:18:32 -0700 Bruce Byfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 17 May 2014 12:32:43 AM Doug wrote: > > > My beef is that when you find something weird happening, it's likely to > > be because of some "style" that you weren't aware of, and _you can't fix > > it, because__ > > __it's built into the "style." _ > > Are your experiences with styles with someone else's template, or else one > that has been developed by a lot of different people with no attempt at > consistency? I'm asking because these are the only scenarios in which I can > imagine the difficulties you describe. > > Apart from the default style and a few advanced cases like the Content styles > that are automatically applied when you create a table of contents, styles > are > not just randomly applied. They're in the document because you put them > there, > and you can see them in the Applied Styles view of the Styles and Formatting > window. So how could you not be aware of them? > > As for features that are part of a style, I can't think of any offhand that > can't be adjusted, turned off, or at least set to zero. To the contrary, you > can set most settings with extreme accuracy. > > The closest thing that I can imagine to things you can't change because > they're built into the style are defaults that suddenly come in play because > you've made some change. For example, in Draw, if you add text to an object, > suddenly settings like font and font size are activated that previously did > nothing. But it should be obvious when you've added something like that. > > > PS: I don't intend to memorize a whole bunch of "styles"--I did my last > > memorization with WordStar in CPM and then in DOS. > > Why would you have to memorize anything? You can preview styles in the > toolbar, and use the views in the Styles and Formatting window to find what > you > want. Usually, too, the names of the pre-defined styles should tell you what > each style does. For example, Text Body is obviously the main paragraph style > in the document, and Title the name of the document. > > -- > Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) > blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com > website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ On the English language forum there is a useful list and details of the inbuilt Styles https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=48530 -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
