Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) For my company's newsletter i sometimes copypaste into a text-editor and then re-select and copypaste from there. Fairly recently i found i could use Shift Ctrl v and go to the bottom of the pop-up box that gives me to Paste as unformatted text and that usually strips away all strange

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 05:25 28/11/2013 -0800, Peter West wrote: Here's an earlier post from Pablo Dotro: If you apply some direct formatting (i.e. bold something by hand), then apply some charactery style, then a paragraph style (with the format you really wanted in the first place)... what you get is a mix of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:34 28/11/2013 +, Tom Davies wrote: The only thing it doesn't get rid of is when people press Enter or Return at the end of each line. There is a workaround for that, too: select the text and go to Format | AutoCorrect | Apply. Amongst other reformatting, this combines single line

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread A
On 11/28/2013 10:44 AM, Brian Barker wrote: As far as I can see: o Format | Default Formatting removes both direct formatting (to characters or paragraphs) and formatting by character styles. o The Apply Style drop-down applies paragraph styles, so you'd expect Clear formatting there to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's amazing that people have to learn how to drive and pass a test. There are so few controls. Usually a wheel or handle-bar or joystick to make the vehicle turn. Something to make it faster or slower. Maybe something to make it go up or down. So at most it's about 3 controls right?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread A
Would Select All (CTRL-A), Menu-Format-Clear Direct Formatting (CTRL-M) not work for you? On 11/27/2013 05:45 PM, pbw wrote: It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. The problem: If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been applied directly using a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread A
Interesting... yours is the only post I've seen so far. On 11/27/2013 08:29 PM, pbw wrote: I don't know, because there were elements whose particular formatting I needed. But I know that that sequence on individual paragraphs does not work, for the reasons explained by others in earlier

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:45 27/11/2013 -0800, Peter West wrote: It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. It's a feature - and I don't think it's missing, in fact. The problem: If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been applied directly using a paragraph style menu,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: strikethrough feature

2011-08-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/27 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net: On 08/26/2011 04:03 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: ... You can do that yourself. Here is how: Tools → Customize… → Toolbars. LibreOffice Writer Toolbars – Toolbar: Select ”Formatting” In the ”Commands” list, scroll down to ”Underline” and highlight it.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: strikethrough feature

2011-08-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/27 Twayne twa...@twaynesdomain.com: In news:cado7t4fptxqvhz5bnkswhgdgapffcznrro43phwsb1bs52h...@mail.gmail.com, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com typed: 2011/8/25 Maria Rechnitzer rrrah...@gmail.com: Dear Support, This is the LibreOffice users' list. It's not a real support. We

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bug\feature in LO Base master\slave form linking

2011-06-26 Thread planas
Vladimir, On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 16:57 +, Vladimir Drobyshevsky wrote: Have a nice day, Jay! planas jslozier at gmail.com writes: Hi Vladimir, ... Is it possible to change the way of LO making relation's query or to find an another way to solve my problem?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Editing feature: Spike

2011-03-18 Thread Andy Brown
Twayne wrote: In news:1300455381.1472.60.camel@PGU-Home-Desktop, Peter G. Underwoodpgunderw...@wol.co.za typed: :: A useful addition to LibreOffice would be a spike :: clipboard, that allows one to store a sequence of items to :: be pasted, from which one can select the particular item ::