[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 106681] Feature Request: Ability to assign character styles to toolbar buttons...

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106681

--- Comment #11 from LibreTraining <libretraining.tutorials at gmail.com> ---
The ability to assign styles to toolbar buttons is a very useful feature.
I started watching this feature request because this is a feature I could use
yesterday.

Let me see if I understand this WONTFIX “logic” ...
A feature which will help knowledgable advanced users is not a priority 
because ignorant beginner users use what is in front of them.
<shakes head>


To an advanced user the Formatting toolbar is nearly useless.
I turn it off.
The ONLY thing on that toolbar which is useful is the style drop-down.
Everything else is going to be in the styles.
To a knowledgable user the Formatting toolbar is a waste of screen real estate.

Same with the Standard (Single Mode) toolbar – 15 of those tools are useless to
anyone properly using styles. So more than half the tools are a waste of space.

So what is an advanced user to do? 
Create their own toolbars. 
Actually useful toolbars.

How about an Ebook toolbar with all the proper styles required to create an
ebook?
That would help even ignorant beginners get started in the right direction.

How about a Long Document toolbar with all the needed styles and tools right
there?
Instead of scattered all over buried in menus.

The ability to assign styles to toolbar buttons is a very useful feature.


Word also has a feature where styles can be made the only formatting option. 
The author can select the allowed styles, and then turn-off everything else. 
The direct formatting tools are all greyed-out, and not available.
A quick way to break the direct formatting habit.
No more receiving Word-salad documents.


Style drop-down selectors are also very useful.

Word has a style drop-down which you can include in the Quick Access bar.
You can turn-off the ribbon and still easily access your styles.

The Quick Styles gallery on the ribbon is basically a bunch of styles buttons.
Little style buttons which actually have a little preview of the style in them.
Style buttons. Good idea.

You can also add the Quick Styles gallery to the Quick Access bar.
You can have two styles tools on the Quick Access bar and turn-off the ribbon
and menus.

The Adobe InDesign toolbar includes both paragraph and character style
drop-down selectors, and it is easy to switch back and forth between them.


Given the current stated goal of enabling LibeOffice users to have-it-your-way
it would seem to make sense to give them the tools to do so.


The ability to assign styles to toolbar buttons is a very useful feature.

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