https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106195
Bug ID: 106195
Summary: Change docs to explain how to remove direct
formatting.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Documentation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
The docs say:
"Removing all Direct Formatting in a LibreOfficeDev Writer Document
1. Press Ctrl+A to select the whole text.
2. Choose Format - Clear Direct Formatting."
But of course it doesn't actually remove _all_ direct formatting. For example,
a paragraph with an un-named direct paragraph format will continue to use that
format, rather than starting to obey the style applied to the paragraph (as I
and many other users might expect).
There are several detailed discussions about direct formats and how and when to
remove them. See https://bugs.documentfoundation.org//show_bug.cgi?id=89960
for example.
But meanwhile, _please_ change the documentation to actually explain what
"Clear Direct Formatting" does and doesn't do; and how to make a paragraph
which currently uses a private (unnamed) paragraph style stop doing that and
obey its style or any subsequent style applied to it.
The current simplistic documentation of direct styles, and the blank statement
that Control+A, Format->Clear Direct Formattring removed all direct formatting
just does not provide enough information for a user to know what to do.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open attached demo.odt
2. Help->LibreOfficeHelp, ->Index
Search for "direct formatting", click "undoing all"
3. Follow the instructions
4. Open Styles and Formatting, and apply 'Default Style' to the paragraph
Actual Results:
The paragraph continues to obey a direct paragraph style (which specifies a
negative indent). The documentation gives no hint of how to get rid of the
direct paragraph formatting.
Expected Results:
Docs should explain fully how Direct Formatting works, sufficient for a user to
know how to get rid of it when they want to
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/51.0
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