Naomi Kramer wrote:
Yes, but... it's a pain in the bum. It is possible to go into the xml
behind a document, open the styles information and modify (insert
screams of horror from readers). In my experience, best bet is to delete
the character style and recreate it, taking extreme care to NOT
accidentally set any unwanted characteristics. Yup, definitely an area
that needs work.
Thanks for the information, I didn't know about the "hack the XML option."
Regarding deleting character styles, the problem with this approach is that once
the style is deleted, any text to which that style was applied reverts to the
default. Combined with the fact that there seems to be no way to search for
character styles, it means that, as far as I can tell, there is no automatic
way to find all uses of a character style and replace it with a different
character style. My sense is that the best you can do if you want to modify
character style X that's been applied is:
1. Create a new style Y that you want to use to replace X.
2. Manually go through your document looking for places where characters
have had style X applied. Change the text to the default, then apply style Y.
3. Delete style X and hope you didn't miss anything in step 2.
Am I overlooking a better approach?
You might (no promises) find this document useful:
http://nomesquelife.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/ooo-writer-for-tech-writers.pdf
Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look.
Scott
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