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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:daveb@libreoffice.org" title="Dave Barton <daveb@libreoffice.org>"> <span class="fn">Dave Barton</span></a>
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href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143419">bug 143419</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - Allow user to easily copy all properties from one (sidebar) Paragraph Style to another"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143419#c4">Comment # 4</a>
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href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143419">bug 143419</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:daveb@libreoffice.org" title="Dave Barton <daveb@libreoffice.org>"> <span class="fn">Dave Barton</span></a>
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<pre>What you are proposing is an extremely convoluted mechanism for creating a
separate (other) style loosely based on an existing style.
We already have a relatively simple mechanism to do this, by clicking on the
sidebar "Styles Action" button and selecting "New Style from Selection" option,
to create a a separate (other) style based on an existing style.
As someone who has trained users in the use of this software since 2001 and
contributed to it's documentation, I can justifiably claim that the most
difficult aspect of Writer is to explain to new/inexperienced users is
"Styles", what they are and how to use them.
We already have numerous complex all singing/dancing sidebars and toolbars and
another Styles creation mechanism would only add more unnecessary
complications. The software has many other important issues the devs need to
address, before looking into fanciful suggestions like this.
My take, the existing mechanism WFM. So -1.</pre>
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