Yes I have the same feeling you seem to have. If I design or
download a style it seems I should be able to go some place
And find that style and all the formates that go into making it. It
also seems that I should be also be to able to make some formating
changes and create a new style but be able to access both when needed.
I guess it's just the nature of programs that they try to do a lot
of things for a lot of people. The problem with that is that if you want
to write a letter you first have to learn a program which may well take
two weeks. Once you learn you can quickly type a letter and make
changes. By now you are two weeks and two days into the learning
curve. If you don't type a similar letter for another month you have
to go back and learn all over again how to formate or style the new
letter type. It's kind of like buying a fancy calculator and using it
on occasion. You have to read the manual every time you use it.
I have spent years learning to do the things I do on a computer and
had I spent $50.00 and hour paying someone else to do it I would be
thousands of hours ahead and maybe even some money. Seems to me some
really simple programs to do a few limited things for people who want to
just perform a few simple tasks might be a good thing.
Doug
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?
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