Scott Meyers wrote:
Note that you had to select two things here: Subscript and
Automatic. But if you select text and want to make it a subscript,
you right-click on it and select only Subscript. One thing. If you
want to create a new character style that only subscripts things, you
need
Joe Smith wrote:
On the style definition dialog, at the bottom, there is a button labeled
Standard. Clicking that button will remove the style properties set by
that tab of the dialog.
I knew that I had run some experiments on the behavior of the standard and reset
buttons and had seen the
Scott Meyers wrote:
...
I really do try to consult the documentation before posting, but I
rarely find what I am looking for. Even now that I better understand
what the Standard button on the paragraph and character style dialogs
does, I can't find a description of it in the online help, the
Joe Smith wrote:
The best resource I know of is the one you're using right now:
user-to-user QA, either here, or one of the web forums:
UCF: http://user.services.openoffice.org
OOoForum: http://www.oooforum.org
I read this list via the Gmane newsgroup interface, which I find vastly
I really do try to consult the documentation before posting, but I rarely
find
what I am looking for. Even now that I better understand what the Standard
button on the paragraph and character style dialogs does, I can't find a
description of it in the online help, the OO Writer Guide,
Scott Meyers wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
The best resource I know of is the one you're using right now:
user-to-user QA, either here, or one of the web forums:
UCF: http://user.services.openoffice.org
OOoForum: http://www.oooforum.org
I read this list via the Gmane newsgroup interface, which I
Scott Meyers wrote:
I went to delete my Subscript character style, which I did not think I
was using. OO warned me: You are deleting an applied style! Okay,
I'll have to find where I'm using it. I went to Font Effects for the
style and added Blinking, then scrolled through the document.
Scott Meyers wrote:
I went to delete my Subscript character style, which I did not think I
was using. OO warned me: You are deleting an applied style! Okay,
I'll have to find where I'm using it. I went to Font Effects for the
style and added Blinking, then scrolled through the document.
Jim Allan wrote:
You must also check “including styles” in the “Find and Replace” dialog
box.
That makes no difference for me -- I still find nothing. Does it work for you?
Scott
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Scott Meyers wrote:
Jim Allan wrote:
You must also check “including styles” in the “Find and Replace”
dialog box.
That makes no difference for me -- I still find nothing. Does it work
for you?
I created some text.
I selected the character style “Strong Emphasis”. I applied the style to
Jim Allan wrote:
Try doing exactly the same thing. If it works, then go from there and
see if you can discover why your previous test didn’t work.
Please try your test again, this time using subscripting instead of blinking. I
find that I can search and find blinking text when I do what you
Scott Meyers wrote:
Please try your test again, this time using subscripting instead of
blinking. I find that I can search and find blinking text when I do
what you do, but I can't find subscripted text.
I created a character style from “Default” and named it “Subscript”. I
applied it to
Jim Allan wrote:
Everything is working just as I expect on my system. Unfortunately,
there’s not much more I can do. At least you can be assured that this
all does work.
Thanks you for your extremely detailed instructions. I believe that things work
now. But I also believe that they are
Scott Meyers wrote:
Jim Allan wrote:
My technique depends on the fact that, at least for me, this normally
doesn’t matter. I can normally change a style to red color from
automatic color, and then change it back to automatic
My point is that you can't do this. Once you've selected
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:54:22 -0700
Scott Meyers wrote:
Naomi Kramer wrote:
Yes, but... it's a pain in the bum. It is possible to go into the
xml behind a document, open the styles information and modify
(insert screams of horror from readers). In my experience, best bet
is to delete the
Hi,
Scott Meyers wrote:
...
and replace it with a different character style. My sense is that the
best you can do if you want to modify character style X that's been
applied is:
1. Create a new style Y that you want to use to replace X.
2. Manually go through your document looking
Uwe Fischer wrote:
you can search and replace styles in the Find Replace dialog. Click
More Options, then check Search for Styles checkbox.
Unfortunately, that works only for paragraph styles. I sent the following post
on April 3, but now I can't find it, so maybe it got lost somewhere
Scott Meyers wrote:
I know how to search for paragraph styles, but how can I search for
character styles? For example, I have a character style called
Publication Title, and I want to find all text in my document where
that style is applied. How can I do that?
From Googling around, I get
Jim Allan wrote:
Once you’ve found whatever you were searching for, or fixed whatever you
wanted to fix, then change the style back again.
The problem is that the only way (I know of) to change the style back again is
to edit the XML file describing the style. As has been discussed here
Scott Meyers wrote:
The problem is that the only way (I know of) to change the style back
again is to edit the XML file describing the style. As has been
discussed here already, OO has no mechanism within the program to
remove characteristics from a character style. Once you've added a
Jim Allan wrote:
My technique depends on the fact that, at least for me, this normally
doesn’t matter. I can normally change a style to red color from
automatic color, and then change it back to automatic
My point is that you can't do this. Once you've selected something, there's no
way
Hello,
A collection of issues related to this discussion:
Switching automatically to the character style page in the styles and
formatting when text is highlighted
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=15332
Strange behaviour when creating a new character style from selection
Jim Allan wrote:
You would creating very unusual documents if there is no searchable
feature that you know you would never use in your text (such as
“blinking” perhaps?) All you need is one searchable feature that you
won't use otherwise than for searching styles.
I went to delete my
Scott Meyers wrote:
Is there a way to remove character characteristics from a character
style? For example, given the character style I created from a
selection above (Light Red + Georgia + 11pt), is there a way for me
to remove the 11pt specification so that the resulting style is Light
Red
Naomi Kramer wrote:
Yes, but... it's a pain in the bum. It is possible to go into the xml
behind a document, open the styles information and modify (insert
screams of horror from readers). In my experience, best bet is to delete
the character style and recreate it, taking extreme care to NOT
Scott Meyers wrote:
Thanks for the information, I didn't know about the hack the XML
option.
Regarding deleting character styles, the problem with this approach is
that once the style is deleted, any text to which that style was
applied reverts to the default. Combined with the fact that
When I try to set the Linked with filed of a character style to Default,
I'm told This Style cannot be used as a base Style, because it would result
in a recursive reference. I don't know how that can be, since it would
require that the Default style refer to the styles linked to it, but
Michele wrote:
I was thinking of character styles, but clearly I am mistaken. Please
accept my apologies.
No worries, you've always been very helpful :-)
Scott
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Well, this is what I see. I select some text, change it to red, and create a
Red character style from the selected text. I then select text in a
footnote
and apply the Red character style. The text size changes in addition to its
color. I then select text which already has the First
Well, this is what I see. I select some text, change it to red, and create a
Red character style from the selected text. I then select text in a
footnote
and apply the Red character style. The text size changes in addition to its
color. I then select text which already has the First
Michele Zarri wrote:
In order to achieve your desired result (e.g. change only one property)
and still being able to create styles from selection, you will need to
make the change you want to a section of text formatted with default
character. In this case it will all work.
This does not seem
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:08:37 -0700
Scott Meyers wrote:
Michele Zarri wrote:
In order to achieve your desired result (e.g. change only one
property) and still being able to create styles from selection, you
will need to make the change you want to a section of text formatted
with default
Michael Adams wrote:
IS Georgia + 11pt an earlier change you made to the default character
style? I do not know this as the default. (Times New Roman + 12pt is
what i'd expect to see here).
OO says my default font is 12 pt Georgia.
Scott
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Is there a way to remove character characteristics from a character style?
For example, given the character style I created from a selection above
(Light Red + Georgia + 11pt), is there a way for me to remove the 11pt
specification so that the resulting style is Light Red + Georgia?
I
Michele wrote:
Basically to remove Georgia (if this is your default character style),
in the organizer tab link the custom style to the default style.
When I try to set the Linked with filed of a character style to Default, I'm
told This Style cannot be used as a base Style, because it would
Michele wrote:
Just guessing (actually it would be much more useful if I spent time
trying rather than typing this email (-: ): have you tried putting
100% in the font size box?
I just tried. It doesn't seem to exhibit the behavior I want, e.g., applying
the resulting style to footnote text
Just guessing (actually it would be much more useful if I spent time
trying rather than typing this email (-: ): have you tried putting
100% in the font size box?
I just tried. It doesn't seem to exhibit the behavior I want, e.g.,
applying the resulting style to footnote text
Michele wrote:
I also tried reproduce the problem and I will make another guess:
When applying a character style OOo only applies those settings that
are *in the character style definition* different compared to the
default character.
Well, this is what I see. I select some text, change it to
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