On re-reading; On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:22 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi Russell; > > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 09:19 +1000, Russell Butler wrote: > > William Case wrote: > > > Hi Harold; > > > > > > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:17 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > >> On 24/08/2008 18:38, William Case wrote: > > >>> Hi; > > >>> > > > [snip] > > > Hi Bill > > > > Just a suggestion which could help for your "Style Group" idea is to > > make a template or series of templates using the styles you expect to > > use. Note that the style has to be actually used on some, perhaps dummy, > > text before it is saved in the template. Then if you save the document > > with the "Styles and Formatting" window set at the "Applied Styles" > > menu, all those will be listed and immediately available. > > > > I don't know if that sort of arrangement would help, but I use it all > > the time for my, admittedly fairly simple, requirements. > > And I do the same. For example, I have a template for speech writing > obviously named "Speeches.tmpl" with my speeches styles attached. But > that only gets me part way there. Those particular page, paragraph and > character styles for writing speeches are somewhat unique. They are all > I want and need for a speech project. As it now exists, instead of > quickly looking up and clicking on a style change, I have to wade > through a whole pile of styles I don't use or want when I am writing a > speech. Adding new styles is not a difficulty in OO.o; getting rid of > unwanted styles is the problem. I would like to eliminate some styles > (temporarily) so that the use of styles is faster, cleaner and more > intuitive. >
Perhaps calling it hiding un-used styles is a better way to explain. But that goes hand-in-hand with being able to see my un-hidden styles and only my un-hidden styles in the 'Apply Styles' control on my formatting toolbar. -- Regards Bill Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
