Daniel,
On 12/06/2010 09:03 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote:
If by any chance, were these problem areas quotes from another source
such as the foreign language? If you have pasted anything into your
document from another document, the styles of the original document
comes with it. Changing the Chapter_default style only changes that
style. It does not change the style of the pasted text.
If you are going to use styles in a document, you would be well
served to use Paste Special choosing Unformatted text instead of Paste.
Using Paste Special this way, what you paste will use the
Chapter_default style. You can also add some character styles from the
Styles and Formatting dialog.
One other item that many people do not recognize: The formatting
toolbar contains the font name, font size, and these icons: bold,
italic, and underlined. If you use any of these in a document, you have
hard wired it into that part of the document. You can only change any of
these settings by highlighting the area to be changed and then change
it. You can not change it using the Styles and Formatting dialog (F11
key). I personally don't use the formatting toolbar for that reason.
So, if you are going to use styles, the best way is to use the
Styles and Formatting dialog exclusively. Use Paste Special -
Unformatted text for pasting any text from another document.
Thank you so much for this reply to James Wilde. You've also solved a
problem for me. I never knew about this simple workaround. I had
installed Wine and was using Notepad to strip formatting, then pasting
it into Writer, then selecting and applying a specific style. It worked,
but this is so much simpler!
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Have a blessed day!
<>< Earl
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