Bug 157035

Summary:	Enable Styles import from a master document
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Olivier Hallot <olivier.hallot>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	libreoffice-ux-advise
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	24.2.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Olivier Hallot 2023-08-31 10:44:35 UTC

Use case:
I want to import the styles from a master document to a chapter. This allows me to set and control the styles in the master document and import them to the chapter, in order to have an homogenous layout throughout MD and chapters.

Today homogeneity is achieved with an extra file (the template file) that has to be common to MD and chapters:

https://books.libreoffice.org/en/WG75/WG7516-MasterDocuments-img/WG7516-MasterDocuments-img002.png

Actual results:
On importing styles from a external document, only ODT, OTT and OpenOffice 1.0 file formats are allowed.

Expected results:
Allow styles to be imported from a Master Document (ODM) and master document templates too.

It will allow to skip the need of a template file.

Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2023-09-05 13:23:19 UTC

Using the master document to overrule the use of templates sounds wrong to me. However, it was accepted in the duplicate bug 94501. And it might be indeed a convenience feature.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 94501 ***