I would look to set and save all the styles you want in one document then save that as a template.
If you import any text (Via Edit > Paste or Insert > Document) then highlight that text and clear formatting (from the styles drop down) before applying a style to it. On 25/01/2017, anne-ology <[email protected]> wrote: > Does 'select all' then choosing the options you prefer not work? > > > > > From: Mike Scott <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:07 AM > Subject: [libreoffice-users] keeping styles up-to-date > To: [email protected] > > > Hi all; I've a bit of an issue in keeping styles consistent across multiple > documents. Maybe there's an easier way of achieving what I need... any > thoughts would be appreciated. > > I'm producing music booklets for a local choir. The sources for the > material are varied: LO files for any words, plus laid-out music input from > musescore and abcm2ps (as pdf files). One song per file. LO source is > converted to pdf, and the whole lot is assembled with pdfunite into a > booklet for printing - often the exact order of pieces won't be known until > the last minute. > > My problem is that although the LO files are derived from a common .ott > template file, I find that I sometimes need to alter basic formatting after > creating all the files, eg to change font face or size. At present, I > change this in the .ott file, then have to go through all the individual > documents reloading the styles from this file. It's tedious! > > So, is there a way of making style information in an LO document a > /reference/ to, rather than a copy of, that in a master file? > Alternatively, is there a way from the command line of loading styles from > one file into another (I have no doubt a macro could do this; I'm afraid I > don't have the expertise to craft one though :-{ ) > > TIA for any advice! > > > -- > Mike Scott (unet2 <at> [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) > Harlow Essex England > "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. > > -- > 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 > -- 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
