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                 Issue #|97809
                 Summary|italics disfunctional   
               Component|Word processor
                 Version|1.0.0
                Platform|Macintosh
                     URL|
              OS/Version|Mac OS X
                  Status|UNCONFIRMED
       Status whiteboard|
                Keywords|
              Resolution|
              Issue type|DEFECT
                Priority|P3
            Subcomponent|formatting
             Assigned to|writerneedsconfirm
             Reported by|dontread





------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Jan  6 16:54:52 
+0000 2009 -------
The italics function on the word processor does not always work. In my work 
(academic) I often need to 
italicise many single words throughout a document. Sometimes the words can be 
italicized, but often 
they cannot. I typically do the following:

- highlight desired word
- hit apple/function key and "i" key

Result:
nothing happens, about half the time.

Fixes:
typically I close OpenOffice and restart, but this only works some of the time.

Alternate methods:
- type word
-put cursor in the middle of the word
-hit function/apple key and "i" key

Results:
same as above

Also, using the character format feature results in same.

Possibilities:
I employ many foreign words in my documents, hence the need for italicisation. 
Many of these words 
have diacritical marks, though certainly not all of them. Perhaps the program 
gets "confused" with too 
many italicisations? Not sure, but this has been a persistent and annoying 
problem.

Further notes:
- This problem did not occur in MS Word, which I have now stopped using in 
favor of OpenOffice.
- I can provide a document if necessary, although I use a specialized Mac 
specific font which I self 
installed - called Appeal - and unless one has it installed, the diacritical 
marks will looked garbled.

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