Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 87623
Style Families for bundling styles together
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:34:53 UTC
I would like to have style families. A style family is a name for a bunch of styles. Each style can be in one style family and one style family can be active at a time. That way I could select what style family I use. For example if I create a style family named "My Style Family", then I could select that I use the styles that are in that style family. Then I could clearly see what styles I am using and what I am not. And then I could copy the style more easily from a document to document, because I just copy a whole style family. Style Families is really obvious a feature for controlling styles. I don't want any default styles in the style families that I create.
Also, when I activate a style family, I want that all the styles that are in it show up in the style combobox even if some of the styles of the style family are not in the document yet. It is not nice that the user has to figure out how he can use the software before he can use it in a usable way. The issue that you don't see any non-used custom styles in the combobox is just bad design. If I create new styles, I want them to be in the combobox too ready to be used.
Currently there are only Style categories - these cannot be customized. Reassigned to requirements.