Hi All; I didn't want to write this post. I have been using OOWriter for over two years and I still haven't figured out how to use styles. I have just read the help manual one more time. I got no elucidation; I do get frustration.
Here are a set of questions that, if answered, might help me. What am I doing? This is not a joke. I understand and can make changes that I want at the category level, but I am left with the feeling that I have just participated in a lucky accident rather than having accomplished what I set out to do. For example, I want to create an overall style called 'Speeches' that I can use to replace 'default' when I first start a document/speech. In fact, I would like to set up a special OOWriter template in the Gnome context menu (right-click) that would start blank with the 'Speeches' template and styles pre-selected. But this is a side issue. Whenever I create a style like 'Speeches' I end up changing my 'default' or losing the new style. I have tried to I set my speech configuration as a template. When I reopen the template I always seem to end up with text or some special formatting from a previous speech. Perhaps, a bit defensively, its because I really haven't grasped what I am trying to do, or grasped what OOWriter can do, or grasped what OOWriter can't do. I expect that 'default' in the upper left corner of OOWriter's format bar will be replaced with 'Speeches' or whatever; that the drop down menu will show things like 'Title' a style which I can create and then select; 'Release Date'; 'Body' in small and large caps; 1.5 line spacing; new margins etc. F11 gives me a long list of the 'default' style components or categories. Where did my 'Speeches' style go? Therefore, what am I doing and what am I doing wrong? -- Regards Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
