Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 8075
How to use paragraph styles
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:33:10 UTC
I'm sorry but I think that this feature is lacking in intuition and that the documentation is not very clear on its use. I find the solution used in Word much easier where the current style is indicated in a tool bar at the top rather than a floating window that does not appear to have any effect on the text that is marked.
Reassigned to Bettina.
Please change platform to all. I think that the summary should be changed to something like "find alternative to paragraph styles floating window". I think that the documentation problem should go into a fresh bug, especially since the documentation on the current set-up has a chance of being revamped long before the styles ui gets rethunk. I have not looked at the styles documentation. Please mention in your bug what specific improvements could be made to make it clearer and more useful.
OK I found out only by trial and error that to apply paragraph styles you need to select the style then press fill format mode then click on the text, only after this I found buried in the documentation the way it should work: Floating Toolbar By single-clicking several icons you open floating toolbars. These are menu windows containing commands you can choose from. Click and hold down the mouse button on the title bar and drag it away from the object bar. As soon as you release the mouse button the floating toolbar remains at the new position. You can then click on the title bar and drag the toolbar to another position, or close it by clicking the Close Window symbol. OK now I now, but I would not have thought of looking under floating toolbar to find out how to apply a style. As to how it should work I'm afraid you need to look at how it is done in a closed source system as it seems to me this function is more intuitively implemented elsewhere. I can't really fault the documentation until the functionality is simplified.
I am confirming this issue.
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