Style category Applied Styles is not working correctly in documents converted from MSO Word. It is showing me many more styles than those in use in the current document, such as Footer, Header, Heading, Text body. I’ve reported this as a bug. In the meantime, any ideas how to un-apply styles that are already not applied?
Hi @libcub – could you please post a link to the bug on your question here? You can use the format “fdo # XXXXXX” (without the spaces) to link to a particular bug number. Thanks
Sure thing. fdo#59369
@jorendc – Sounds like your kind of party… please take a peek at fdo#59369, and see if you can Answer this question.
I opened once a doc (MSO 2003) file in Writer, stripped all what was not needed and saved it as a template.
I observed:
- plenty styles which could trace back to Word
- some of this styles got somehow link to LibO styles
- except a few styles I could delete all styles which came over from Word
Now as I know LibO better I am working on templates starting from LibO. This seems to be the better way on the long run because WORD and WRITER are not 100% compatible. Maybe difficult to achieve as long as MS doesn’t stick to standards.
I hope this helps you in terms of understand what could happen with your files. My OS is XP/SP3
@ROSt53 – Any particular notes about what kind of styles
- Transfer over from Word
- Get linked to LO styles, and/or
- Aren’t able to be deleted in LO?
I wonder if there’s any big interest in trying to make styles import/export compatible.
fdo#59369 - Style categories in Styles & Formatting window has current status of NEEDINFO.
@qubit1 - I personally don’t see a real need for importing styles from MSO. Reason: I found the styles in WORD pretty confusing. For me the styles on LibO much easier to be understood and applied.
Deleting is possible but very cumbersome. I would like to be able to select and delete them all in one shot.
Should you be interested,here is a link to files with styles from WORD. Explanations are inside the files, doc and odt format.
Thanks for the additional information. I can imagine that compatibility of style data could be an important feature in the future. Hopefully we can encourage wider adoption of ODF as a primary interchange format so that all players (LO, AOO, MSO, Abiword, etc…) can collaborate more easily.
@qubit1: your are right "…wider adoption of ODF as a primary interchange format… "is really the key. Howfar will MSO follow???