On 2009-08-30 08:39 Harold Fuchs wrote:
Eustace wrote:
When I open a WP document, the paragraph style is Default, and I find
that
Paragraph Style: Default > Font Effects > Font color: Automatic
which is OK. What is not OK, however, is this: I use in my system
white font on dark background, and the opened document has *black*
font on the dark background. To correct the situation I select all,
and then set
Format > Character... > Font color: Automatic (instead of Black)
This is hardly satisfactory because:
a. Some text in the document may be in specific color. When I select
all and set automatic as character color, this is lost, and I have to
go back to correct it.
b. When the document contains tables, I have to select all the cells
of the table and apply the automatic character color (with again some
text in some text falling into the first case).
Is there a better/easier way to handle the situation?
emf
Either create a special "style" with the font colour & background you
want or modify the default "style" and create one or more special styles
for other things. Which you do depends on which is the more common usage
in your world. Read up on "styles" in chapters 6 & 7 of the Writer guide
at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/ or the two
appropriately named chapters at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide
You can save the styles you create to a special "template" or to the
default "template" as you wish. Templates are also discussed in
documents linked to from those two pages
I have learned to use styles, creating, modifying them, etc. Eventually
I'll have to substitute the Default with specific styles in the
document. But to start with, I'd like to be able to see the document as
it is supposed to be seen, and I would prefer to be able to see it using
white on navy colors, except when in the original document I have
assigned specific ones. The Default paragraph style seems OK - at least
I can't find anything wrong with it - the problem is with the Default
character style, which cannot be modified - I can only create a new one,
lets call it Automatic Colors. This is no less complicated, and in
addition it does not work, it does not affect the black color of the text.
I have created a template for new documents, but I do not think that I
can apply it to existing documents, or can I?
I suspect that the problem is in the opening of the wpd documents -
color codes are inserted where there are none - but have no idea how to
correct the situation without going over all the formatting of the
document, applying styles to each paragraph, table contents, etc. I was
already forced to do this to the documents that I needed right away, but
there are many more that I would eventually have to deal with, and I
tremble at the prospect.
emf
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