It's clear that the OOo team have 'borrowed' Word's Styles and Formatting bar, 
renaming the stylist and adding a toolbar button for it in precisely the 
position Word's equivalent appears.

Having gone this far, users might expect the tool itself to look (and feel) 
much the same.  Sadly, the experience is not as good (yet).  Why not follow  
Word's Styles and Formatting bar more fully?  At least provide WYSIWYG 
paragraph styles - this makes it much easier to locate the style you want.

I'd like Writer to go further, and also copy the Styles and Formatting bar item 
drop-menu, with the command “Select all nn instance(s)†which lets you see 
immediately where you have applied the style in the current document.