Re: [libreoffice-users] Character Styles

Hi :)
Nice! :)  I wonder if you can reconfigure the
Ctrl B
combo to apply the relevant style instead of just making it bold
temporarily?
Regards from
Tom :)




On 16 April 2014 19:06, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've discovered another neat reason to use character styles instead of
> direct character formatting. We've already discussed the advantage of
> changing character formatting document-wide by just changing the style.
>
> I've always used Ctrl-B for boldface and Ctrl-I for Italics in providing
> direct character formatting to my text. I didn't want to be bothered by
> character styles. But, on occasion, I want to clean up a document by
> removing direct paragraph formatting (Ctrl-M). When I do that, it clears
> *all* direct formatting, whether paragraph or character, so I end up losing
> all my bold and italics.
>
> But, I've now learned to use the character styles Emphasis for Italics and
> Strong Emphasis for boldface instead of the direct bold and Italics
> commands. Then when I hit Ctrl-M to clean up formatting, then my boldface
> and Italics are preserved, because they are controlled by character styles
> rather than direct formatting.
>
> This has been a major change in the way I've worked over the years, but I
> think as I get used to it, I'll really like it and the greater control I'll
> get over my work.
>
> What's interesting is that this is the way LaTeX editors like LyX work by
> default. It's second nature in LyX, because that's the *only* way it works.
> But because of LO's open model (a billion ways of accomplishing the same
> task), I've had to adjust how I work with the office suite.
>
> Virgil
>
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