On 10/24/2020 11:12 AM, Michael H wrote:
I think what you want is "clear direct formatting." In LO 6.3 this is
on the right-click menu for each object in a page, but it doesn't show
up when you have multiple objects selected, and it doesn't show up
when you select the page on the page browser.
It would be nice if 'clear local overrides' was programmable to a key
in 'customize keyboard' but I don't see it there.
Thank you for the suggestion, but I don't think it works on my problem.
When I right click on a text box on a slide and then click "Clear Direct
Formatting" it clears the formatting of the text itself (boldface,
italics, etc.), but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the geometry
of the text box that holds the text. When I edit a master slide, usually
what I am editing is the layout, meaning the placement and size of text
boxes on the slide. When I apply the edited master slide to all slides,
there are always some slides that don't accept the changes, while others
do.
I have tested this on several different slide presentation files,
starting from scratch in each case. I have been careful *not* to apply
any direct changes to text box geometry on individual slides before
editing the master slide. Even so, after editing the master slide, the
changes are never applied to all slides in a presentation and clicking
"Clear Direct Formatting" doesn't seem to help.
Virgil
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:06 PM Cuyahoga Falls <[email protected]
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As a college professor, I use slide presentations daily. I have
used a
variety of solutions including LaTeX/Beamer, Markdown/Slidy, and
LO Impress.
Impress is obviously very full-featured and easy to use with its
WYSIWYG
user interface. However, I have been bothered by what appears to be a
strange behavior in Impress.
There are times when, after creating a slide presentation with 15
to 20
slides, I find I need to edit something globally, such as the size or
shape of a text box on the slides. To do this, I go into the
appropriate
Master Slide and make my changes. I then click to apply the Master
Slide
to all slides, but then when I go back into the slide presentation, I
find that my changes are only applied to some, but not all of the
slides. I then find myself having to go into each slide to reapply
the
same changes on a slide-by-slide basis that I had tried to apply
globally by changing the Master Slide.
I'm finding that, when working with Impress, I have to carefully
design
all of my slide formatting *before* composing my content, because
if I
have to change formatting later, I have no assurance that the changes
will take effect globally. This is obviously the opposite of the
behavior in LaTeX or Markdown, where the formatting can be
designed at
any point in the process with predictable results.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Is this a bug, or can anyone
suggest anything I might do differently?
I am currently using LO 6.3.4.2 on Windows 10, but I have noticed
this
behavior for years on a variety of LO versions on both Windows and
Linux.
Virgil
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