Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

On 3/26/2014 6:15 PM, Mark Bourne wrote:
> Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Quite honestly, I rarely use character styles, but in this case where
> > you're changing two characteristics (9 points to 11 and normal weight to
> > boldface), the character style would help ensure consistency throughout
> > the document. With the italicized "/v.t./" I don't see any advantage to
> > using a characters style as you're only changing one feature (normal to
> > italics). Just highlight the text and hit <ctrl-i> and you're done.
>
> Until, for example, you later decide word types should be blue as well 
> as italic... If you've just hit ctrl+i all the way through to make 
> them italic, you'd have to find all occurrences and change them all 
> again. If you've defined and used a character style, you'd just change 
> the style once and all the word types would turn blue.

Mark,

You're absolutely right. I stand corrected.

Virgil

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