Bruce Byfield wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:23 -0500, Ed wrote:
But, for my personal use I prefer the WP method of changing the format
of individual words, or sentences, on the fly. And if I have to do any
editing later, the Reveal Codes option gives me complete control over my
document.
As a 'personal' user I should not have to be bound by styles. I would
end up with more styles than I could remember for what their use is.
I suppose if you make it a matter of personal choice, there's nothing
much left to be said. You have a right to work as you choose -- even if
you are making life much more difficult for yourself.
Most people write only a few different types of documents, and most of
these documents will only use about half a dozen different styles. It's
only a few hours' work to set up templates for your main type of
document, and no trouble at all to remember the few unique styles in
each of them, especially if you give the styles meaningful names. In
fact, if you use the Next Style field on the Organizer tab for a style,
you don't even have to remember most of them.
In the end, this small bit of work will save you hours of time.
Even though I fully want a Reveal Codes feature added to OOo, I do
agree with you that styles in most cases work for most individuals. I
have used them with success.
There are those out there that each document uses a different style.
They are not clones of previous documents and thus would require a
different set of styles. These are cases where direct formatting is
better than styles.
--
Robin Laing
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