Hi Christoph You made me drill into the Style concepts (one has to do it once in a lifetime... Thanks for the challenge), and answering to Friedrich: "New" creates a new style that inherits attributes from the selected style and is hierachically below it, for - Writer Paragraph styles, character styles, frame styles - Calc Cell styles "New" creates an empty (Default) style for Pages (Calc, Writer) and numbering (Writer). That is: no style hierarchy for them. Regards Olivier <div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/5 Christoph Noack <<a href="mailto:christoph@dogmatux.com">christoph@dogmatux.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi Friedrich, sorry for that in advance - this mailing list behaves a bit different. It is configured that you don't need to subscribe, so it is better to CC all participants of a discussion. (Was done to lower the hurdles to get in touch here occasionally.) Am Montag, den 05.09.2011, 22:25 +0200 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: <div class="im">> Hi Olivier, Cor, *, > > had a quick view.. > reordered thread contents for future participants.. > > Am 05.09.2011 20:47 schrieb Olivier Hallot: > > 2011/9/5 Cor Nouws <<a href="mailto:oolst@nouenoff.nl">oolst@nouenoff.nl</a>> > >> Olivier Hallot wrote (05-09-11 20:05) > > >>> Can we get "Duplicate" and the new style name be "Copy of xyz"? All > >>> xyz attributes get copied in the new style. > > >> I always thought that New does that trick with the selected style ..? > > > Looks like you are right... My bad. > > really? > > LibreOffice 3.4.3 > OOO340m1 (Build:302) > > I tried to "clone" the "envelope" page style in writer, but got a copy > of apparently "standard" selecting and right click new.. </div>Well, so true - there are styles that don't allow hierarchical organization. Thus, all the settings are (presumably) hard-coded. Now I'm curious what Olivier will tell us about the user case - I'll think a bit about this issue. <div class="im"> > > But, Then... is "New..." the right wording? "New from this" (?) > > next question this one ;o)) > > > Gruß/regards </div>Cheers, Christoph </blockquote></div> -- Olivier Hallot Founder and Steering Commitee Member The Document Foundation