Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 78160
Styles improvement.
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:03:57 UTC
Styles, of course, is an extremely important component of OOo. But it has taken me over a year to understand how to use it. My problems, in the end, were related to my understanding of what the word "style" meant in plain language versus what it means in OOo. Therefore what I was trying to accomplish in OOo was in fact impossible. I want to name a whole set of subsidieary styles one name e.g. "Speeches". To me the word 'style' means a group or set of configurations that add up to one style (or 'style list'). To the "Speeches" style list, I would add one heading style called "Title"; one paragraph style for "First Page"; a default page style for all subsequent pages. (Perhaps one or two others as I found a need). I would like to remove all other default styles from the "Speeches" style list. I would like to save my "Speehes" style list in a Speeches template so that when I open the "Speeches" Template only the "Speehes" style would be available and would show in the dropdown icon on the format bar; replacing default and all its extra styles which would not be needed in the "Speeches" template. Not only does it seem logical to me, I spent several hours trying to make this work becasue it seemed so natural to me that that was the way it should work. None of my googling and manual reading said that it shouldn't work that way. Because I beleive that this is a normal and natural way for a writter to work, I am asking for an enhancement that would allow this kind of creation of an overall style. Regards, Bill
TM->requirements: Please have a look, thanks !
Isn't that what others call "themes"? Or did I misunderstand your RFE?
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To mba; I have searched the OOo online help and the Writer guide and could find no reference to "Themes" so I don't know whether what I am asking for is a theme or not. I suspect not. To put it simply; I just want to be able to create an over-arching style that contains only the sub-styles I create or borrow from OOo and be able to attach that over-arching style to a template as that templates default style. As someone who writes a lot, I want it my way with no one else's sense of style getting in the way. Regards Bill,
Hi Bill, - It is possible to create your own templates, in which you can change properties of existing styles as well as add your own styles. - In the window Styles and Formatting (F11, or the button left of the box Apply Style) you can choose to have only your own styles displayed (selection list at the bottom of the window). If I understand you right, this is part of what you ask. - What is not possible atm - again, if I understand you right - is the idea that you can choose which styles are shown in the box Apply Style. Is this the idea? Thanks, Cor
To Cor Nouws: Basically yes. Here are the differences. - It is possible to create your own templates, in which you can change properties of existing styles as well as add your own styles. -- YES - In the window Styles and Formatting (F11, or the button left of the box Apply Style) you can choose to have only your own styles displayed (selection list at the bottom of the window). -- ALMOST YES. 'Applied' shows all my created or self-written styles, even those styles created for the purposes of another type of document. I would like to be able to add a name to each different distinct set of styles, so that when I went to the selection list at the bottom of the window, one of the choices I would have would be my own set, e.g. "Speeches" I could choose instead of "Applied". N.B. some of the sub-styles chosen must include default styles if that is what I need to complete this new set of "Applied/Speeches" styles. - What is not possible atm - again, if I understand you right - is the idea that you can choose which styles are shown in the box Apply Style. -- YES kinda. If, saved with a template, I would like the "Speeches" style-set name and sub-styles to appear in the Apply Box on the toolbar and in the Styles and Formatting window at the bottom persistently (unless I deliberately change the Styles name at the bottom of the Styles and Formatting window) whenever I open the "Speeches" template. I hope the lack of distinct names for style objects is not confusing things. If needed I could write out a concrete example with all sub-style names and contents detailed, all objects, windows or boxes, simply named and include screen shots. Regards Bill
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