On Saturday 28 October 2006 12:23 pm, William Case wrote:
> 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?
Have you read the documentation on Styles?
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ is a good source.
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/ had a listing
of several chapters on Styles.
Dan
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