It would appear that on Sep 6, Brian Barker did say:
> You can certainly do some things of this sort:
> o Click in an already formatted area.
> o Click the Format Paintbrush icon in the Standard toolbar. (The cursor
> changes to a paint can.)
> o Click the paragraph to be similarly formatted, or drag across the relevant
> text.
>
> If you need to use the same formatting in a number of places, double-click the
> Format Paintbrush icon instead: the paint can will than "stick". To cancel
> this mode, either click the Format Paintbrush icon again or else press Esc.
I'm glad there is such a tool... I don't suppose there is a keyboard
method, involving positioning the text cursor with the arrow keys,and
using some variant of ^C & ^V??? I routinely turn off almost every tool
bar that I can because it can easily take me 15 tries to successfully
click on the right button. Which I have great difficulty recognizing in
the first place, since I don't seem to think visually and my brain processes
something like the proverbial thousand words just to identify each icon.
Or I could fight with the mouse to position over each one, each time,
long enough for tool tips to remind me what that meaningless picture is
supposed to stand for... Thus I'm not really surprised that I never
spotted this mouse based tool.
> Exactly what sorts of formatting are copied depends on what is selected when
> you click the Format Paintbrush icon. And you can exclude paragraph
> formatting by using Ctrl+click when you apply the formatting or similarly
> exclude character formatting by using Ctrl+Shift+click. Full details are in
> the help text at Format Paintbrush.
> Alternatively, you can create appropriate styles and then apply these to
> relevant text.
Now that sounds like something I might be able to do with the keyboard...
But of course the help text only tells me how to click this and click
that... So I tried a little variation on the instructions I found in:
help | styles | creating from selections
I discovered that if I pre-positioned the text cursor on an appropriate
paragraph, hit 'alt+O' then 'y' to open the style pop-up, I could use
the tab key, then the arrow keys to to access the "New styles from
selection" scrollbox I could then select "New styles from selection" and
name the style. Then I could repeat the process selecting 'bullet'
styles... Then I can pre-mark a range of text with 'shift+arrow(s)'
and again use 'alt+O' then 'y' and select the paragraph style. But
I note that if I'm NOT using the mouse to switch back to the pop-up
I'll Have to 'toggle' it off then on again with 'alt+O' then 'y' to
restore the focus to it as it doesn't appear in the 'alt+tab' window
switching menu... Likewise, once I've used the tab and arrow keys to
select the bullet styles button, there doesn't seem to be a keyboard
method to switch back to the selectable list of 'styles' short of
toggling styles off and on again with yet another sequence of
'alt+O' then 'y'... But for all of that it did at least work. And is
MUCH easier for me than trying to use the mouse based method.
Thanks for the suggestion. Hmmnnn I wonder if Abiword has something
similar for those truly {eaYucthff} word compatible .doc versions?
I shall have to check it out... << No, at least not that I can make
work...>> I knew I liked Ooffice better...
> I trust this helps.
It did. Thanks again!
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