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Hi Regina, 

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 05:42:43PM +0200, Regina Henschel wrote:
Francois Tigeot schrieb:
[..]
There's also the matter of Impress: the Style and Formatting module is
completely useless there. New styles can't be created or custom styles
applied to the document.

That is wrong. The Style and Formatting window contains not only the
presentation styles, but the drawing object styles too. And for them
the styles work as in Draw.

It was so obvious for me, I forgot to specify I was talking about text
styles. I'm working on a mainly text-based presentation and the absence
of paragraph and character styles is driving me nuts.

The inability to use style in Impress is a real turn-down but I'm afraid
the problem is bigger than the developer's list.

"Inability" is wrong, but the connection between master page and
presentation object style is not obvious and the handling can be
improved. To come up with a concept would be a task for UX.

Why not just use the same style mechanism as in Writer ?
I can't fathom the fact that there are "character" and "paragraph" dialog
boxes accessibles from a contextual menu in Impress, but the result
can not be associated to a global style in the document.

Consistency is very important; how can I be sure some categories of text
(say shell command samples) can have the same formating in all the
presentation ?
Did the creators of Impress expect people to take a 80-slide document and
tediously apply the same changes by hand in half of them, right-clicking the
mouse 40 times to change the font of one of the text lines ?

-- 
Francois Tigeot

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