When I open the “styles” sidebar, it defaults to the hierarchical view. I would prefer that it default to the “all styles” view. Is there a way to do this? I did it in OpenOffice, but do not remember how.
I suspect that this question has been answered somewhere, but I have not stumbled upon the proper search terms to find it. Any help would be appreciated.
Akiva
Create a blank document. Put some text in it. Change the style menu to All Styles. Save the dummy document. Quit LO.
You can now delete your dummy document.
Next time you open Writer, the side stylepane will display All Styles.
More generally, LO remembers the state of the GUI when a document was last saved. You can then proceed with the stanza above with any document you update.
Remark: I personally find Hierarchical view more useful as it shows a more compact list. Also, I have heavily customised my styles in a hierarchical way with several “master styles” controlling “slave styles”. It makes more sense to me to see immediately the category I need (heading, caption, text body, header and footer, …). This organisation is in line with “semantic styling” which is a tremendously powerful workflow for documents.
Of course, YMMV.