Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Callout Style settings

On 2021-07-18 17:05, Steve Edmonds wrote:

> Is it possible to set Writer callout text paragraph style (or default settings, if so where please.
> This is to avoid having to change the font and left hand offset in every line callout one at a time.

When I first saw this question, I had no clue what you were asking (having never used callouts), so looked 
forward to an answer, to at least help understand the question.  When no answer came, I tried the LibreOffice 
7.1 Help on "callout" -- and found it unhelpful:

> "Opens the Callouts toolbar from which you can insert graphics into your document."

But that leaves these problems:
(1) It's not clear WHAT "Opens the Callouts toolbar" [apparent bug in the Help], and IAC:
(2) As installed (that is, in the default configuration), View=>Toolbars shows *no* "Callouts 
toolbar".

As for (1): *WHAT* opens the Callouts toolbar?

As for (2): The lack of a toolbar, which is supposed to exist, led me to:
        View => Toolbars => Customize...
In the Toolbars tab, with <Scope:LibreOffice Writer>, the <Target> box shows "Callouts" among the 
possible tool bars, but gives no control (that I can see) for how to make it appear in the View=>Toolbars menu.

Further, after much searching, I found that the Drawing toolbar has these three apparently-relevant 
commands:
        <Category:Options>        "Callout Shapes"
        <Category:Drawing>        "Callouts"
        <Category:Drawing>        "Vertical Callouts"
(The command categories were found in a subsequent command search on "callout".)

But none of that gets any closer to /using/ these commands.  So, at the most basic level of use: 
How do you /invoke/ callouts? - via a Callouts toolbar or the Drawing toolbar? If you use a 
Callouts toolbar, how do you make it appear?

John

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