Robin wrote:

> <CTRL><F12> brings up "Insert Table".  Different options in different

I might have customized my keyboard shortcuts.

Go  ">Format >Styles >Catalog"

> >> Again, where?  I see the styles box but there are different tabs (icons) 
> >> that I have to click to get a full picture.

Go reread _Stylist: Their Options and Attributes_ for the first time.

> You don't understand what I am trying to say.  I have to click on something 
> to know this

If you are interested in paragraph style changes, then leave it on
paragraph styles.
if you re interested in numbering style changes, then leave it on
numbering styles.
If you are interested in character style changes, then leave it on
character styles.

And be sure you know which styles inherit which attributes from which
other styles.
[Something that also has to be known, when using WP, Nota Bena, or
other word processors.]

> But it only indicates the styles used which is a start.  It does not show me 
> in the document where the styles are used or changed.

Scroll through you document, and you will be able to tell what styles
were used where.

> Many don't use styles, some do and others are direct formatted.  Some

Then your "need" for "Reveal Codes" functionality is even more absurd.

> No, the issue is where is the markup done in many cases.  In some cases, the 
> markup is part of the content and has to be recreated with a custom style or 
> direct formatting.

Markup is _never_ a part of content.  No wonder you are confused.

> But there is when I have to add or make changes.  This is the issue.I get a 
> document that

make up your mind.

Do you have to change:
i) Content;
ii) Markup:
iii) structure

You have claimed that you can not change markup;
You have claimed that you can not change content;
You are now claiming that you have to change structure;

Nothing I have read indicates that "Reveal codes" can do anything
about the strucutre of the document.  More to the point, WP provides
another tool for structuring a document.

> > Did you read _any_ of the documentation on styles?
> Yes I have a copy at my desk, both at home and at work.

You may have a copy, but did you read it?

>  I find that in most of what I do, direct formatting is quicker.

Yikes.  I'd hate to see any of your documents.
[I'd probably have to spend an hour to clean them up, so that they are
presentable enough to read. ]

> But not the bottom or top.  I have just tried again and again.  I can

I've got navigator docked on the top right, and stylist on the top
left.  It can be done.

>   I can come up with many examples where styles don't work for me or other 
> people I work with.

I have yet to see an example of where styles do not work.  [I'll grant
that changing all instances of a word from character style  "a" to
character style "b" is a PITA,  but that is not because styles don't
work.  Rather, it is because find/replace doesn't allow for character
style searches, or for replacing a word with a word that uses a
specific style.

xan

jonathon
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