Has anyone gotten conditional styles to work in LibreOffice Writer 7.2.6.2 with Windows 7?
I’ve been struggling for hours searching for a tutorial, trying to follow information in 7.2 Help, and everything else I can think of without any luck.
It seems using individual styles would be more straight forward, but I am trying to understand the concept of conditional styles.
It was suggested in one place – though not thoroughly explained – that you could use conditional styles to style a whole list at once with different fonts and font effects for each level. I have been unable to achieve this.
Please, edit your question and describe briefly what you want to achieve. Thanks.
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The feature is broken somewhere between version 5.4.7 and 7.1.
It seems to be tracked in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144409
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Thank you for your reply @Regina. It confirms my experience. Now I don’t feel that I simply misunderstood how to use the feature.
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This is one of the few remaining reasons why I still use Apache OpenOffice.
To check that your understanding of the feature is correct, and also to have your document rendered correctly with respect to this, pending the resolution of bug 144409 you could have both suites installed. I do on most workstations. No problem to have them installed and running side by side on MS Windows or MacOS.
Note that the handling of other formatting/structure elements from LO Writer may suffer in AOO Writer. I have not encountered any issue, but I do get a warning about “newer document format in use” whenever I open a LO sourced document in AOO. Proceed on own accord.
Thank you for the input keme1. I’m trying to understand LibreOffice Writer as much as I can. I ran across some information regarding conditional styles but the information was limited and I was unsure how it worked. When I tried experimenting, I got frustrated. I’m not sure I would use the feature if it did work, but I always like to know what my options are.