On Saturday 17 May 2014 12:32:43 AM Doug wrote: > My beef is that when you find something weird happening, it's likely to > be because of some "style" that you weren't aware of, and _you can't fix > it, because__ > __it's built into the "style." _
Are your experiences with styles with someone else's template, or else one that has been developed by a lot of different people with no attempt at consistency? I'm asking because these are the only scenarios in which I can imagine the difficulties you describe. Apart from the default style and a few advanced cases like the Content styles that are automatically applied when you create a table of contents, styles are not just randomly applied. They're in the document because you put them there, and you can see them in the Applied Styles view of the Styles and Formatting window. So how could you not be aware of them? As for features that are part of a style, I can't think of any offhand that can't be adjusted, turned off, or at least set to zero. To the contrary, you can set most settings with extreme accuracy. The closest thing that I can imagine to things you can't change because they're built into the style are defaults that suddenly come in play because you've made some change. For example, in Draw, if you add text to an object, suddenly settings like font and font size are activated that previously did nothing. But it should be obvious when you've added something like that. > PS: I don't intend to memorize a whole bunch of "styles"--I did my last > memorization with WordStar in CPM and then in DOS. Why would you have to memorize anything? You can preview styles in the toolbar, and use the views in the Styles and Formatting window to find what you want. Usually, too, the names of the pre-defined styles should tell you what each style does. For example, Text Body is obviously the main paragraph style in the document, and Title the name of the document. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
