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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 20 08:57:29 +0000 2007 ------- That's the whole point - using Styles makes it much simpler to ensure consistent formatting, but it doesn't make it easier to format an inconsistent document. If you've got parts of the doc from others, you may find that they've not used styles or created their own styles. Thus at present the most effective way would be to remove all formatting in the inconsistent portions & redo the formatting from scratch (preferably using styles), maybe using the Paste Special (Ctrl+Shift+V) --> Unformatted text and then format as needed. The problem comes in with the "portion" as pasting something into an existing document does not always place the "wrong" formats in the exact position. This is where RC can help. One of the previous posts, said that it's very difficult to implement this as OOo formats each character instead of having opening & closing tags for each format element - uhhh WRONG - you're using an XML based file format, XML works much the same way as HTML: which uses opening & closing tags to show: "bold starts here"some text"bold ends here" further text saved as <b>some text</b> further text It does not save as: <b>s<b>o<b>m<b>e<b> <b>t<b>e<b>x<b>t further text This is exactly the same way that WP RC works - it just shows those open and close tags as graphical buttons so you can click on them to open a relevant formatting dialog, drag them to a new place & delete them if not wanted. When it comes to styles, in OOo's ODF (XML based file) each style is saved similar to HTML's cascading style sheets (CSS) at the beginning of the file. Then any portion of the document using this style has again an open & close tag to show where the style is applied to. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
