Hi;

I just spent most of Sunday building two sets of permanent 'Styles'.

Although I have been using OOo Write and Calc for over two years and do
not consider myself a newbie, it was one of the most frustrating
exercises I have had using a computer in a long time.  I tried to follow
both the online 'Help' instructions and the downloaded documented
Manual.

The problems were mainly with the written word -- ambiguities, pictures
that didn't reflect my OOo, skipped basics, examples without
explanations and explanations without examples.  Many of the pop-ups and
drop downs that were supposed to ease the pain only made things more
confusing.  Many of the concepts were counter-intuitive.  I don't mean
contrary to the way things are done on other systems but just downright
didn't make sense.

I know these remarks are very general, but much of what I finally got
was through dumb luck and I doubt if I could purposefully reproduce all
the individual problems and mis-understandings here for comment

I think that the whole issue of using 'Styles' -- an important concept
for an office suite -- should be revisited and rethought through from
top to bottom.

And, by the way, I did finally get things working the way I wanted, but
Gawd it was hard.

-- 
Regards Bill
Using FC6 and OOo 2.0.4

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