scott wrote:
>> And yet, no known word processor works like this.
> 
> Hahaha what? You mean you don't know how to use Styles in Word?  How on 
> Earth do you write anything longer than a few pages efficiently?
> 
>> Both Word and OpenOffice provide "styles", but good luck figuring out 
>> how to work them. In particular, Word provides styles called "Normal", 
>> "Heading 1", "Heading 2", etc. But it seems to be physically 
>> impossible to *change* these styles.
> 
> Get up the style and formatting tool bar, then just click the style 
> drop-down menu and choose "Modify...".
> 
>> Seriously. I want to be able to create sections and subsections, and 
>> *I* want to choose what these look like. Is that really so hard? Why 
>> has nobody implemented this simple feature yet??
> 
> A million other people want to do exactly what you say, and actually do 
> do it everyday in MS Word.
> 
>> (In particular, I utterly *hate* sans serif fonts. Yet all these 
>> programs always default to it. GRR! At least Excel lets you change the 
>> default worksheet font; OpenOffice Calc seems to lack any such option...)
> 
> Go to Word, change the "Normal" style to use Arial font, then save the 
> document as NORMAL.DOT (search to see where your NORMAL.DOT is currently 
> located and overwrite it).  Job done.
> 
> 

I just worked with styles in Word in a doc.  Both helpful and a pain at 
the same time.  As with any thing - you must become an expert in it 
before it truly becomes helpful and saves time.  Until them you are 
fighting it to get what you want.

Have fun!

Tom

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