On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 09:32 +0100, Andy Pepperdine wrote: > On Monday 26 June 2006 05:47, Dave Barton wrote: > > > > SuSE 10.1 - OOo 2.0.2 (official version) > > > > I type a few lines in normal left aligned format, terminated with one or > > more carriage returns. Then I move the caret to any one line and try to > > change the alignment of that line (eg. right, center or justify) and > > every line in the entire document changes to that same alignment. > > How did you change the alignment attribute?
By any of the normal methods (eg. toolbar buttons, menu options, keyboard shortcuts) > Whether text is left, centred, etc is an attribute of the paragraph > style, and applies to the whole paragraph. So far as I know, it cannot > be applied to a single line _within_ a paragraph. True! Error of terminology on my part. For "line" read "paragraph". > If you overwrote that attribute for a single para, it should affect that para > only. But if you changed the attribute in the para style, it would affect all > paras with that style. Correct! That is the normal and expected Writer behaviour, but in this instance the default para style is left align and manually changing any one para changes the alignment of every para of every page in the entire document. > > Can anyone offer any suggestions on how I can return Writer back to it's > > normal sane state? Preferably without doing a reinstall. I know it's something I have accidentally mis-configured in my settings, because it was working normally up until a couple of days ago and I have tried everything I can think of and run out of ideas on how to fix it. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
