[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 100382] Updating Paragraphs Or Styles Is Illogical & Time Consuming For The User

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100382

Colin <colin.rimmer63 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Colin <colin.rimmer63 at gmail.com> ---
I read your comments, and can see that there is an option to update style when
right-clicking on the paragraph icon. Cntrl-Shift_F11 does nothing on my PC -
are you sure you mentioned the correct hot key sequence ?

What is still find completely unintuitive and annoying, is the fact that you
have to double click on a style to apply it to the current paragraph. You are
not making it easy for the user to find this functionality. Despite this, you
have decided to completely ignore a request that would make it considerably
easier, especially for new users to achieve what they intend. They shouldn't
have to go and read the help manual in order to find that out for every little
bit of hidden functionality that you choose to implement.

If you choose to close bugs without giving the user a chance to comment on your
findings, then you are over-riding your user's wishes and undermining their
effort to try to contribute to the products functionality and usefulness.

More to the point, you lose all quality control if you don't listen to your
user base and just close bugs / enhancement requests. 

Yes, I'm new to using Libre Office, but if you never listen to your users, how
to you ever hope to spawn the migration of users from Microsoft Office to Libre
Office ?

People don't generally take the time to report things unless they have found
them troublesome and annoying.

I feel that some of the suggestions I have made could readily be implemented.
You can't expect users to start trying to customise buttons etc, when they have
only just started to use the application.

I'm sorry to say , but your suggestion to select all text in the document and
apply styles to it is completely ridiculous. I have many different styles in
hundreds of handouts that I present to my guitar students. If I did what you
suggested, I'd have to go through every paragraph setting them back to the
styles they are supposed to be. I've got styles for the Title, the Intro,
Notes, Chords, 1st Lines words, 2nd Lines words, Guitar tab sections etc etc.
Ive got Styles with specific font sizes, style with specific indents. What
you've suggested would cause me a complete headache identifying every paragraph
that used to possess a certain style and changing it back to what it is
supposed to be. 

You have not provided a practical or workable solution, and I have to say, this
have left me feeling very disappointed, because it makes me realise just what a
struggle it's going to be if I wanted to convert my hundreds of handouts so
that they display and print correctly in Libre Office Writer :-(

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