McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
As far back as 2004, Bruce Byfield had complained in Linux Journal
articles about a missing something that I'd mentioned even several years
before that... and apparently it might still be unavailable in
OpenOffice Writer.
Is it just me, or have the OOo developers still not seen the value of
giving Character Styles an "As is" or "As found" option on all the
character attribute lists?
If I have two dozen Paragraph Styles, and I want to be able to apply
(for example) a "Bold-and-blue" character style to individual words or
characters in any of them... does that mean I must create two dozen
different "Bold-and-blue..." character styles? And then two dozen
different "Small-caps" character styles, and then two dozen
different.... you get the idea... ?
An "As-is..." option in the Character attribute lists would allow me to
create just a single "Bold-and-blue" character style that could be
applied anywhere. Thus, the list of Character Styles would not need to
run on for pages. Instead it would have just one 'apply anywhere'
"Bold-and-blue" character style and just one 'apply anywhere'
"Small-caps" style and just one of whatever other general style I
desired.
Have I overlooked or misunderstood, and this functionality is in there
somewhere, maybe with a different name or a different way of applying
it?
Go to a document. Create a new “Blue & Bold” style from the Default
character style.
It works as you describe.
If you apply it on a header style, the size is that of the header style,
but blue.
if you place it on small caps, the small caps are retained, but they are
now blue and bold
Jim Allan
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