Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 7546
Cell-Styles in Writer Stylist
Last modified: 2007-04-06 15:18:12 UTC
I have an RFE concerning the handling of table cell styles in writer. Would'nt it be nice to have the "Cell-Styles" available in (writer's) Stylist, too? (Like Calc) Currently, the Cell- Styles seem to be created, named and assigned on the fly, but one is unable to manually group several cells with the same style. Therefore, one has to apply style changes manually to every correspondend cell. That's a bit laborious, I think... The Cell-Styles-Dialogue should include options like Background, Vertical-Text-Alignment, Cell-Spacing, Borders, etc... Because the cell styles are already in use (in the xml-output), this enhancement should IMHO primarily apply to the gui... Thanks, Christian
Reassigned to Bettina.
I find some features in the stylist for tables as "Table Contents" and "Table Heading". Until now I have not used the Stylist very often, so that I do not know whether there kan be included more special styles by the User. Also, as far as I know, table funcition for WRITER will be redesigned in OOo 2. How can we handle this wish? Rainer
Hi Rainer, I think the situation in writer is more complex then in calc. In calc the settings for the font, for styles of numbers and for background and alignment all belong to the cell. Therefore in calc cell-formatting via stylist is implemented. In writer the settings are spread to table and to paragraph, which is right, because you can have a lot of paragraphs and objects within one cell. "Table Contents" and "Table Heading" are paragraph-styles and no cell-styles as discussed here. There allready exists a kind of 'stylist' for tables; it is the 'AutoFormat', but it deals with whole tables and you cannot update your selfmade tablestyle. Having cell-styles in the stylist would be nice, but the stylist becomes more extensive because you need a new category. Anyway I have voted for this issue, because such capability will give an easy way to design tables. In writer a style-template via stylist would be helpfull, because you have - in contrast to calc - not the possibility to transfer a format with 'PasteSpecial'. Which settings cellstyle should handle, should be discussed later, if you deside to implement them. kind regards Regina
Seems to be dup of http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11121 (11121 has more votes). Resolving as such. Please transfer your votes to 11121. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 11121 ***
and closing.