From: David Chart (linux@dchart.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 14:40:17 EDT
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:36, Paul Rohr wrote:
>
> IIRC, the way the Word UI works is as follows:
>
> 1. Changes to a template are automatically applied to new docs.
> 2. They're not automatically applied to existing docs.
> 3. However, the styles in a document *can* be manually refreshed to
> sync with the current state of any template, particularly the one
> it was created with.
>
There is a preference (Automatically Update Document Styles, I think)
which is set per document and gives you number 2, but 3 is the default.
IIRC.
> I think Dom's arguing for #2, while Tomas et al would like #3. Fortunately,
> these behaviors don't need to conflict. ;-)
>
I'd like #3. It's something I want to use from time to time.
> The real question is how prominently to expose #3 in the UI, no? IIRC, it's
> buried fairly deeply in the Word UI, and that might not be such a bad thing.
Well, it certainly doesn't need a toolbar button, but we probably want a
Templates dialog, like Word has.
David
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