klaus schmirler wrote:
Jonathon Blake wrote:
Klaus wrote:
If it had a change option for every character, numbering, paragraph
and page style that is applied in a given place, possibly mentioning the
Currently implemented in OOo.
Separated from the options of defining new ones? And, more importantly,
in one place, at one glance, without checking in five different panes,
if you are talking about whatever the Stylist is called now?
What I am going for is some redundancy (seeing what's already there) and
a lesser chance to miss anything. I may be a stupid user, but I know I'm
not alone, and I like to see my mistakes.
If you want to see what is "already there" at any point, and the normal
screen view doesn't provide sufficient information, right click, and the
context menu provides you with the means to call up dialog boxes which
allow you to directly view (and change) page properties, paragraph
properties, and character properties applied to the page object,
paragraph object, and text range object in effect at your current
character position.
If you want to see current style values, then look at the style
definitions, yes in five different panes. But really now, you aren't
going to be so inanely stupid as to look for margin settings in
character styles or bulleting styles, are you? You are actually only
going to be concerned with only of these at any one time.
Do you really care about "what's already there"? Then learn how to use
the tools in OOo Writer and most other popular word processing
applications and publishing applications that do show you exactly
"what's already there", rather than asking for a viewing mode that
obscures "what's already there" by showing formatting code tokens that
aren't there, suggesting for example, that a particular formatting
attribute was applied pages back where the code is shown, when in fact
the formatting is independently applied again and again in every paragraph.
Improvements to the interface should better show what is already there,
not fake what possibly might be there if OOo Writer handled text
formatting in a very different fashion.
Jallan
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