On 13/09/06, Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 09:06 am, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Hi Michele,
>
> Michele Zarri wrote:
> > THanks for the prompt reply. I guess one of the problems was
> > that the text I was modifying was imported from MS Office
> > therefore loads of charachter styles were created.
>
> That's it.
>
> > Re your suggestion, I tried that but it did not really help,
> > sometimes even when selecting the default character style, the
> > font colour remained unchanged.
>
> Pls re-read my first answer ;-)
> I suggested to use the menu Format|Default format(ting) or
> Ctrl-Shft-Space. Thanks to your question below, I guess you didn't
> ...
>
> > On the very related subject (therefore not worth a different
> > thread): what is the difference is between "clear formatting" and
> > "default"?
>
> I don't know what the clear formatting item in the style name box
> does.
>
> Greetings,
> Cor
Clear formating and default appear to do the very same thing on
my system (Linux, 2.0.3 OOo). This is possibly because I have not
modified the default paragraph style. Furthermore, both of them apply
only to paragraph styles and NOT to character styles.
I have run another test. After modifying the default paragraph
style, I have found that "clear formatting" changes the original
paragraph style (First line indent) to match the default paragraph
style.
Suggestion: to modify unknown text, cut and paste special
selecting Unformatted text. This removes all the formating on the
pasted text. Then apply the formating you want: both paragraph and
character.
If the creator of the document used the font color drop down menu
to change the text color, this is considered to be "hard coded." No
style will override this. The same thing is true for Bold
(Control+B), Underlined (Control + U), and alignments (left, center,
or right). Some of these may be what is causing you problems. The
only way I know to remove these "hard codes" is to follow the
suggestion above.
Dan
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Cor, Dan,
Thanks for your comprehensive reply. What I did not know was that the text
colour, and the attributes, if manually set by the user are not overridden
by the style defaults. I had considered the paste unformatted, but this
inherits the attributes of the paragraph were you paste, so for example if
you have a paragraph with default style, with colour manually set to, say
red, by performing a paste unformatted on that paragraph the text will
become red.
This is not to say that your suggestion doesn't help (actually I use paste
unformatted so often that I have a special shortcut for it), but it is not,
strictly speaking completely unformatted.
Cheers,
Michele
