Yes, anytime I copy anything from a Word file, I paste it using "paste special" and then "unformatted text." Word and LO work differently enough that the last thing I want is Word's formatting codes messing up my styles.
I'm not sure how it happened, but I'd bet that the .docx school logo is what messed you up. It may be that, by copying that image, you copied a lot of other stuff as well. Virgil On 11/17/2016 02:32 PM, James Wilde wrote: > Absolutely right, Virgil, and that's the advice I gave when we discovered the > problem. That's the way I work: a composition phase followed by a > formatting phase. And, yes, I do, on bigger jobs, create paragraph breaks > through, usually, paragraph formatting, sometimes with styles. Personally I > usually go for a 1 cm (or so) first line indent and no extra line break. > > However, this was, as you said, a rush job, and all the worse for my wife > not having used LO before. > > Your comment on the source is quite possibly also valid, for the first thing > she did was to import the school logo at the top of the document from an old > docx Word document. I hadn't actually thought about that, and that could > account for the problem. Perhaps a way round this in future if she imports > anything from Word might be to select and copy all from the Word document, > and paste special, I think it is, into the .odt document. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Strange-line-spacing-tp4200102p4200190.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
