Created attachment 196917 [details] Screen shots of the key menus involved. "Synchronize Labels" button not showing: Default Suggestion When you are making LABELS in Writer, an essential step is to "Synchronize Labels." However, if you do not check the "Synchronize contents" box in the "Options" tab when you are creating the Labels Writer document, you will not have the option to "Synchronize Labels" once the Writer doc is created. Without this crucial step, users will spend hours looking for the "Synchronize contents" box. SUGGESTION: Enable "Synchronize contents" by default; or better yet, make this the default behavior and remove the box. One can always choose NOT to "Synchronize contents" by not clicking the button, so it does no harm to always present the option.
P.S. Steps to recreate the issue: 1) Create a new Label doc: File->New_>Labels 2) Go to Tab #3 "Options" and do NOT select the "Synchronize contents" box. If you do NOT enable "Synchronize contents", you will NOT be presented with a "Synchronize Labels" button when you create the document. 3) Click on "New Document" to create the doc. There will NOT be a "Synchronize Labels" button. You will have a labels document, but you will NOT have the ability to "Synchronize Labels" once you reformat Label #1. 4) Reformat the first label by (for example) centering the text. Without the "Synchronize Labels" button, you cannot update the format of the other labels on the page to match.
Sounds reasonable for me. But let'S ask design team. cc: Design Team
Sounds correct to me too, but not using Labels myself.
+1
We discussed the topic at the design meeting. The proposal to change the default was appreciated. Code pointer: officecfg/registry/schema/org/openoffice/Office/Writer.xcs (search for "Synchronize contents" and change the value to true.