One of the reasons I first download OO - now LO - was due to the
ease of copying in the .txt documents;
[well, the Impress program impressed me over MSFT's poor one]
Has this changed? ... if I were to determine how to update from .4
to .5, would I too have the problems which are noted below ;-(
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Andrew Brager <[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings to you all. I'm new to Libre Office.
>
> I'm wondering if there's a way to duplicate/replace attributes from one
> paragraph to another in so that they are formatted identically.
>
> A frequent problem for me (typically when I copy & paste from elsewhere)
> is that two sentences/paragraphs just won't line up properly (perhaps even
> in a numbered list), I assume due to various formatting reasons including
> different fonts, sizes, tabs, margins, alignment, and/or anything else that
> might affect placement and display on the page. They seem to be the same
> in the original source as far as I can tell, but once copied and pasted to
> a document in Libre some of the paragraphs seem to get out of wack.
>
> Trying to apply the exact same attributes to the paragraph or sentence
> that's out of wack just doesn't seem to work - probably because I don't
> know what attributes have been applied and/or simply don't know how to get
> the same effect in a consistent way.
>
> Perhaps there is an "attribute tree" mode so that I can see what set of
> attributes has been applied? Either just plain text or perhaps through a
> graphical representation maybe? I guess I don't need to see it if I can
> simply apply from one to another - sort of like the eye dropper from a
> paint program copies the color from one spot so you can apply the same
> color to another spot only here instead of color, it would be text
> placement & display attributes.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
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