Thank you to Martin and Brian I have now sorted this out. I knew there were Hard Returns and Soft Returns but never consciously used them. I now have to understand which, when and where to use them as I add items to the Newsletter. I do not know how I have managed to format the Newsletter for the last several months without encountering the problem that started this week. For Martin - I use the Index part of the template I work from and update it when I change the items that are changed in the next week's Newsletter. For Brian - I made an error in using the words "Body Text" instead of "Text Body" for Writer. The term becomes "Body Text" in Thunderbird email. " the appearance of the relevant parts of the text changes or are you actually looking at the applied paragraph style name?" The appearance of the text actually changes along with the style name" Thank you both for your help sorting this out for me. Jean
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:13 AM Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 20:13 09/12/2020 +1000, you wrote: > >I have a template for a weekly newsletter with an index which I use. > >I open the template and below the index copy into it the body of the > >previous weeks newsletter as some of the items remain the same each > >week or have minor date changes etc. Also new items are added. The > >basic layout is > >Heading 1 > >Body Text > >Heading 1 > >Body Text > >Occasionally I use a Heading 2 > > I'm guessing that by "Body Text" you actually mean the built-in "Text > body" paragraph style? > > >When an item is copied to or written in the Newsletter it needs to > >be formatted as Heading and Body Text. The index is then Updated. > >The problem starting this week is that when a Heading is formatted > >as Heading the Body Text is also changes to Heading. When that body > >text is highlighted and changed back to Body Text the Heading also > >changes back to Body Text. I can change the Heading back to Heading > >and the Body Text also changed to Heading again. > > In taking about these changes, do you mean that the appearance of the > relevant parts of the text changes or are you actually looking at the > applied paragraph style name? > > >The procedure I have been given to use has worked well for months > >until this week. > > So the question is: what have you changed? There are various > possibilities, I think: > > o You have changed the details of one or other of the paragraph > styles involved to match the other - or at least have sufficient > changes to show the problem. > > o You have applied local formatting to some parts of your material to > mimic the appearance of the other style without actually changing the > style. > > o You do not have proper paragraph breaks (as created by pressing > "Enter") between your various elements. If you have line breaks > instead, or if the text flows from one line to the next without any > break, there cannot be a change in paragraph style. If you are not > careful about how you paste material, you may be deleting necessary > paragraph breaks. Have you (perhaps temporarily) toggled on the > display of "non-printing characters", so that you can see what is > happening? > > It's impossible to tell exactly what you are doing from your > description, and you may need to send a sample copy to someone for > diagnosis. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker - privately > >
