[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 108076] New: Cell Styles don' t provide formatting functionality as the term "style" leads the user to expect

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108076

            Bug ID: 108076
           Summary: Cell Styles don't provide formatting functionality as
                    the term "style" leads the user to expect
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.3.2.2 release
          Hardware: x86 (IA32)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: timbacontent at gmail.com

Description:
A "style" is understood by most users to be - as has been long established in
Microsoft Word - a way to easily apply a user-defined set of character (or
paragraph or cell) attributes to the user's selection. For example, a style
might make the selected characters superscript and 6 pt size without affecting
any other character attributes. Each such style would then be accessible via a
user-defined keyboard shortcut, allowing the user to quickly go through a large
spreadsheet and apply, or change, the visual appearance.

If Calc 5.3.2.2 allows this it's insanely unintuitive and the help file is no
help whatsoever. My attempts to create styles, when applied, seem to try to
change every single parameter (and seem to do this in a very buggy way,
although I'm not sure it's a bug because I can't understand how the UI is
supposed to work).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to use styles as described
2. try to use the help pages
3. _____________?

Actual Results:  
Extreme frustration

Expected Results:
If it's called a "style" - obviously a tip of the hat to Microsoft Word - it
should work as well or (preferably) better than Word, and someone who is
comfortable with Word styles (e.g., about 1 billion people) should be able to
intuit how Calc works. In lieu of that, the help file should explain, in detail
and in friendly fashion, what is different and why, and how to use styles to
save time.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

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