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Happily, you can also update a style based on the formatting of selected text, so you can make changes visually in the document and then save them to the style. There are buttons at the bottom of the pane to create a new style or modify an existing one, and modifying brings up a dialog with 13 different tabs – the options are laid out fairly logically, but its sheer complexity can be daunting. There’s no preview of what each style looks like, so you must double-click to apply it to know what it does. The word processor Properties pane shows basic text and paragraph options such as font name and size, bold, italic, underline, bullets, numbering, spacing and indentation, while the Style List shows styles in alphabetical order. You feel that the designers of this UI could have used space better, putting more options on the Properties pane, reducing duplication and making the pane resize more sensibly (resizing either reveals more blank space or cuts off half the icons). Regrettably, despite plenty of unused space, you can’t dock the Properties pane at the top right and the Style List at bottom right – you see just one of them unless you drag the other off to the left.ĭoing anything remotely complicated means launching a modal dialog, yet there’s wasted space below the 32 tools on the Properties pane, and 14 of those 32 tools are duplicated on the toolbar at the top. To the right are the dockable tool panes, with their own tabs down their right-hand edge so you can flick between them. Below the toolbar is a ruler, and then finally the document text you’re working on. Some of the toolbar button icons aren’t particularly clear, and they have no textual titles, so you have to hover your cursor over them to see the tooltip to find out what they do – they’re the normal 16 x 16 pixels, but a lot of empty space around them makes them feel smaller. There’s a standard menu at the top of the window, below which appears a row of tabs showing all your open documents, with a big friendly “New” button at the left to create a new document.īelow the document tabs lives a single toolbar row, the first button on which is another, smaller New button for creating documents. Under the covers it’s still based on the OpenOffice code, but fitted with a completely different user interface that combines menus, tabbed documents, toolbars and floating or dockable tool panels.
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