On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:00:39 +0000 Brian Barker <[email protected]> dijo:
>At 20:49 31/10/2010 +0000, I wrote: >>At 12:44 31/10/2010 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>>As a workaround I changed the entire document to DejaVu. It took an >>>hour because you can't change a font globally. And I have a couple >>>of tables of five columns and 15 rows. You can't even change a font >>>for an entire table - you have to select the text in each cell >>>individually and apply the new font. >> >>Er, where do you get those ideas? > >Oh, dear: my apologies. You were writing about an Impress >presentation and I was thinking of a text (Writer) document. So what >I said clearly missed the point. Sorry about that. > >Mind you, you might be able to achieve something by copying text into >Writer and back again. Or not. > >Sorry that didn't help. Thanks to all for the suggestions. It turns out that I could have done most of it by changing the default style. However, changing the default style still did not affect the tables. I had to do those manually, one cell at a time. I am amazed that you cannot apply a font by selecting the entire table. And yes, I am very familiar with styles. I have been using Writer for years and always use styles because most of my writing is destined for layout in Scribus. Scribus will import Writer text and maintain the styles. I always have the styles dialog box open. However, in this case I didn't bother because I just had 17 slides and I mostly created them by duplicating a previous slide. Thus, all I had to do was set the font in the text frame on the first slide and for each subsequent slide I just deleted the text in the frame and typed in the new text. None of this would have been necessary if OOo did not have a bug causing it not to embed Bitstream Vera fonts. I also note that when I am typing in Writer with the styles dialog box open, whatever style I am typing in is highlighted. If I move the cursor to an area of text where a different style is applied, the dialog box immediately highlights the style of the new text area. In Impress I always had the style dialog box open, but none of the styles were ever highlighted. Anyway, the problem is resolved. I'm just dismayed at the poor formatting available in Impress compared to Writer. Luckily I rarely need to use Impress. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
