Rod wrote:
> > Go ">Format >Styles >Catalog" > That menu option has been dropped from 2.0. It was renamed, and another step added in OOo 2.0. It is availble thru the menu, though. > Answer: You can't do it; at least not in Writer. And this isn't a I've done it using OOo 1.1.3-ZA. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, but it can be done. >so the deficiency potentially affects almost anyone using OOo in academic work. I will grant that doing that in OOo is a PITA. Doable, but a major PITA. >So if you have a document that uses more than one font, you have make duplicates of things like an Emphasis character style for each font or point size. That depends. Some attributes of character styles can be constructed so that applying the character styles will change just one attribute, when overlaid a paragraph style. For various reasons, I think that it is a bd idea to construct such charaacter styles. > That's also the reason why you have thousands of Styles in your template. Toss out the styles that are there becuse language is an attribute, and the styles that are there becuse colour is an attribute, and I still have a plethora of styles --- probably close to 1 000 left. >If you can create it manually, you can turn it into a style. The same can't be said for Writer or Word. Thus far you have given run-in headings: [Issue # 39582, if you want to vote for it.] It can be currently done in OOo, but it is messy, amongst other things. What other examples do you have? xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima.
