Arnold Huzen wrote:
The applied style of a paragraph is shown in the toolbar. You only need to put the cursor in the specific paragraph.
Yes, but only one at a time. The importance of the style margin is that you can see the style for each paragraph-level object alongside it, all the way down the page or document at a glance. This makes it much easier to check for errors in the application of styles.
Without this visual confirmation, OO is only marginally usable for consistent styling.
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Consistent styling is something the author must do himself.
Of course...but the interface should *help* the authors or editors, not hinder them.
If you want to learn more about styles and the way OO is handling them take a look on this site: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html at chapter 13 of the OO-guide or chapters 6 and 7 of the Writer-guide
The problem is the *interface* -- the way in which already-applied styles are made evident to the author or editor -- not the application or formation of the styles themselves, which are just fine.
Have a closer look at the way Word does it: in Tools|Options set the Style Area Width to 2cm and then view a styled document in "Normal" view. The productivity gain for authors and editors using this method is significant (28% fall in errors in the application of styles, and a 7% fall in time taken to completion in the last test I did; I'll be measuring it again next summer).
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