Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 11054
Style import and organization suggestions - prune existing styles
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:35:37 UTC
1. Load styles should have option to prune existing styles. When I load from another file, typically I want the current document to be left with ONLY those styles. Whatever styles it has presently should be replaced or deleted. As I understand the present system, there is no "prune" option, only "augment." 2. Deleting multiple styles is hard and tedious. There is no way to select multiple styles for deletion. 3. The Organizer seems tuned more for templates than documents. What I would like is a side-by-side organizer view of styles in documents A and B with the ability to move between them, much like a dual-pane disk file browser. This Organizer need not distinguish between templates and documents.
reassigned to bh@openoffice.org
I have to agree with OP on this one. It is easier to standardise documents within an organization if there are not a multitude of extra styles to choose from. In my personal writing functions, I hate having to keep track of a multitude of styles and try to decide which one is "correct" for the situation. I'd rather define them as I go.
Who is OP, and do your remarks agree or disagree with mine. I am not following, sorry.
I agree with the original poster on most or if not all points and wish to clarify/extend my comments with the following: The only style that should be permanent is the 'Default' style; all others should be candidates for deletion per user's requirements. It would be much easier to standardise a document within an organization if a document could be left only with those styles which are actually necessary, as opposed to the plethora of styles PLUS the user defined styles as per the current system. For my personal use, I also like to keep the number of styles to a manageable minimum.
points 2 and 3 could be considered as enhancements. issue 20073, which has already been started might address this also.
Issue 20073 seems to deal somewhat with points 2 and 3 from an organization standpoint, but it doesn't address the problem of not being able to delete the unkillable built-in styles. A better solution might be install the styles as part of the default install, but have the option to leave them out if you don't want them. At any rate, they need to be removable, just as any user-defined style is.
*** Issue 105470 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".