> 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. And what the hell is the point of a style that 
> you can't change? Being able to instantly change all the headings in 
> your document at once is the entire *point* of styles!! So why make them 
> read-only?
> 
> (I've just moved from Word 97 to Word 2003. It's really quite amusing 
> watching it create millions of useless style objects each time I press a 
> formatting button. It would be far more amusing however if I could 
> actually *use* styles to do something useful...)

I find it interesting that nobody on earth ever uses them. Come on, I 
just decided all those headings on the 30-page document shouldn't be 
centered. Go change them. Would take seconds using styles.

You *can* change them and stuff. It's in, erm... *opens Word* (I haven't 
used it in years (didn't need to) and now I have a different version).

OK If you're in 2003, use the styles dropdown and click "More" (or on 
the menu: Formatting | Styles and formatting). It opens a silly sidebar 
called "Styles and formatting". Click on the arrow on one of those 
styles and it opens a menu containing "Modify".

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