On Monday 26 June 2006 12:40, Dave Barton wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 21:11 +1000, Dave Barton wrote: > > 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.
I'm glad you found what you did. I suspect that the other template had AutoUpdate ticked in the Organizer tab of the Paragraph style. > > > > > > 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 > > Oh dear! Now I feel really stupid. The answer was very simple: > > File -> Templates -> Organize... -> Commands -> Reset Default Template > > You probably won't find this reset option in the command list if your > default template does not need to be reset. You will find it referred to > under "templates;organizing" in the current help file. > > Apologies for the unnecessary list noise. > > Dave > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
