Hi. If you are copying and pasting the text into your document, then "paste without formatting" will paste the text in and adopt the style/formatting at the cursor. I have assigned ctl-k on my machines to paste unformatted. I can quickly ctl-ins , ctl-k to copy-paste 1 handed and not muck up my formatting. You may not have realised that normal copy-paste adds the style of the copied text into your document, and with a lot of copy-paste actions you can end up with a plethora of unwanted styles throughout your document. steve
On 13/04/2019 00:08, Carl Paulsen wrote: > Steve, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I'll look into > upgrading and see if that changes anything. I think the issue may > well have been that I was selecting "paragraphs" with different > formatting (my quotes aren't to draw attention but rather to indicate > I don't mean only book-like paragraphs) and trying to apply tabs to > those. If I repeatedly use a specific format, I'd definitely consider > Styles. But there seem to be a lot of complicated considerations for > using Styles (the nesting/heirarchy topics I mentioned in my other > reply). > > Anyway, thank you. > > Carl > > > On 4/8/19 3:53 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: >> Hi. >> I am on 6.07 but your issue is dredging up some memories where I think I >> noticed the same situation. >> With a paragraph as a block of text terminating in a line break (rather >> than the older paragraph in a book interpretation), I think I noticed >> that when I selected multiple paragraphs with different tab settings >> that I couldn't edit tab settings in the ruler and there was no TAB tab >> in the paragraph format dialogue. >> This was before 6.07 which is not showing the issue, may have been 6.05 >> or 5 series. >> In some cases I set the tabs one paragraph at a time, in others I just >> set the default style for the block of text and then re-formatted >> characteristics, including tabs. >> >> If there are a lot of paragraphs to format the same way, I would suggest >> creating a style and then you can easily apply the same formatting >> repeatedly. >> Steve >> >> On 09/04/2019 00:34, Carl Paulsen wrote: >>> LO 6.0.5.2 on Mac Sierra (10.12.6) >>> >>> In some cases I can click into a line and set tabs normally. In the >>> document where I had the problem I believe it was a bulleted list or >>> indented text (hanging indent I think) where I was having the >>> problem. I opened the document today and quickly tried it again and >>> can't find the section I was having problems in. But I'm pretty sure >>> I removed all formatting and started over in that section, at which >>> point it worked. Wish I could reproduce it, as it was quite >>> frustrating. My guess is it was something to do with whatever >>> formatting was applied in that section. I don't yet use Styles so any >>> formatting would have been set manually, and that would have been >>> minimal. >>> >>> If I encounter it again I'll be sure to post again, and try to post a >>> sample document. >>> >>> >>> On 4/8/19 7:19 AM, Dave Howorth wrote: >>>> On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 14:32:05 +1200 >>>> Steve Edmonds <steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi. >>>>> What version of LO do you have. >>>>> Just as a test, can you click into just 1 line and then add a tab >>>>> stop >>>>> to the ruler. >>>>> Steve >>>> Also what OS? >>>> >>>> In addition, can you post an example of the text/document that you >>>> cannot format tabs for somewhere? Perhaps it is a data-dependent >>>> problem, since tab stops work as you expect for other people including >>>> me. >>>> >> >> > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
