[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 100521] New: [META] Removing and Adding Styles

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100521

            Bug ID: 100521
           Summary: [META] Removing and Adding Styles
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: ux-advise
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: erwinm@alumni.beloit.edu
                CC: libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org

Please don't assume everyone has set up styles while setting up each document.

I know styles are supposed to be the best way to set up Writer documents. I
gather that styles are also supposed to be the best way to set up Draw
documents.

However, there are some practical problems:

I have had trouble with styles, like autoformatting, scrambling text. For
example, if I'm editing a document where other users have applied list styles
in Word, the list styles scramble the list, scramble any numbering, and
sometimes crash LibreOffice. I doubt my experiences are unusual.

Sometimes we need to work without styles.

Sometimes we don't know that there are styles, apart from basic line styles and
object styles.

At least with my window prefs, select and edit tools are obvious in LibreOffice
Writer and LibreOffice Draw, where styles are hidden away in each.

If styles are supposed to be a standard way to use documents, then I think it's
going to be necessary, first, to let users strip away styles, second, to help
users repair paragraphs and lists scrambled by styles, and third, to help users
add styles to existing documents.

I think, in Draw, I'd need to be able to select all objects with certain
formatting, certain size ranges, etc., regardless of their parent groups, to be
able to set up styles. I'd need to be able to select individual objects and
switch them from one style to another. I'd need to be able to set color-style
independently of function-style.

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