i've noticed this, too, and i'm not sure about status of this issue.
to test it, write some letters in an empty writer document, format then manually so that font size is changed (select with ctrl+a). now, press 'end' twice. font size (and probably other parameters, too) for current cursor position is changed to the one specified in 'default' (in this case - 12).
Yes. Moving off the end of a paragraph with cursor keys is the supported way to revert to the default character format of the paragraph after you have used manually applied ('hard') formatting.
of course, editing styles is the preferred way to change most things in oo.org, but this seems quite unintuitive to me - for example, create two lines, format them both with font size 10. position the cursor in the first line, press 'end' twice - again it's 12...
So you found a keyboard shortcut for Format-Default that befits people who use styles with only occasional formatting - which really is the best way to work with OOo.
But where is the problem. You can still navigate around you hard-foramtted text and continue typing with your hard formatting anywhere. Only if you move to the end and then a further step 'beyond the end' do you get the behavior you observe. Is there anything else you expect to happen in that situation?
this probably works as designed, but maybe there is a possibility to change design in some unintrusive way ? anybody can comment on this ?
Can you make a proposal how it should work? But please don't deprive people who do use styles of the functionality that is useful to them.
Morgan Ohlson wrote:
I mark all, ctrl+A and make all text on the page into 10pts.
But what happens? All letters bacomes 10pts, but some gaps, empty slots on
the page still remains 12 points. Walk around the marker with arrow keyes
and look at the size shown
So, the text is changed but not the gaps even though it was marked. Should
this be regarded as a bug... or is there any point meaning to it?
There is, see above.
This is probably why text is hard to control. The same probably goes for chage in fonts etc...
Yes.
To change the default character style (globally or for a certain paragraph style) use the stylist or style catalog to change the paragraph style (or the 'default' character style).
Ciao, Joerg
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