Formatting tutorial?

[Eclipsenow]

OK, I'm getting lost with formatting and especially templates.

I've heard from some other forums (EG: Slashdot) that sometimes the Open Office help is a bit limited and there can be really good online manuals and tutorials. Is there anything good on formatting in Writer, especially templates?

I've never really learnt how to format my heading preferences in Word, let alone Writer which I've just started to use. (And am generally loving so much better than Word which has been crashing our machines lately... congratulations on a stable office suit! I tried the Open office alpha the other day and it bombed.)

So where was I? Why does the Open office style tool go from the style down to the text you wish to change?

Why not the other way like most Mac formatting stuff in the Command T style pallet for stickies etc? That way I can highlight my paragraph, be happy I've got all the text, and then click on the style I'm after and "whammo" it changes. The other way round I've found problems selecting all the text I want in the right number of clicks before the style is lost.[/i]

[Lorinda]

Yes, the on-line help can be a bit lacking. There are lots of resources out there. For starters, try these three pages in the Neowiki

Documentation and Related Resources
NeoWriter
Tips and Hints: Styles and Templates Section

All three have links to articles in the wiki and links to articles elsewhere on the web.

Styles do work very differently in NeoOffice, due to the choices made by the original designers of the code that is now OpenOffice.org. It bears a lot of similarity to what I remember of the old WordStar's approach to styling.

Lorinda

Edit: fix typo

[rays]

[Eclipsenow]

Thanks Rays and Lorinda, I'll have a read and get back to you Ray if I discover what I was doing wrong.