Scott Meyers wrote:
...
I really do try to consult the documentation before posting, but I
rarely find what I am looking for. Even now that I better understand
what the "Standard" button on the paragraph and character style dialogs
does, I can't find a description of it in the online help, the OO Writer
Guide, or Solveig Haugland's OOo Guidebook. Coming by information on
how style linking works seems to be especially difficult, yet this is at
the absolute foundation of effective style use. Is there some source of
information about Writer that covers this kind of stuff that I'm simply
unaware of?
Ha. If only.
The best resource I know of is the one you're using right now:
user-to-user Q&A, either here, or one of the web forums:
UCF: http://user.services.openoffice.org
OOoForum: http://www.oooforum.org
Both of those, all three really, since the mailing lists are archived,
are indexed and searchable by Google.
In the end, it really does just take a lot of work to become proficient
with OOo. I would say that it takes more work than it should; I think
most people would agree with that.
The online help is actually very good. There is an awful lot of
information in there (it is considered a bug if there's some feature or
button in the software that isn't documented in the online help), but as
is so often the case, the presentation of the information is not so
great. However, it really pays to learn how to pry the information
out--just don't expect it to fall in your lap.
In this case, I learned about the "Standard" button from folks on
oooforum, but it is in the online help--there's just no easy way to find it.
If you go to the "Find" tab in the help, and search for "standard", one
of the sixty-odd hits is "Character Styles". Double-clicking that takes
you to a page that documents all the tabs on the modify character style
dialog, including the "Standard" button.
I cannot find any other way to get to that page. Perhaps there's an
entry in the "Contents" somewhere.
Often the best way to find something in the help is to use the "Help"
button that's almost always available to get help on the current
context. But not in all cases, including this one.
Unless you are a) persistent and b) have enough knowledge to pick
"Character Styles" as likely to be relevant, the chance of finding that
page in the help looks pretty slim.
<Joe
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