On Thursday 23 November 2006 05:10 am, Peter Stavrinides wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I find the 'styles and formatting tool' buggy and unpredictable,
> After creating my custom styles, I highlight a portion of text on a
> line and tried to apply the style, instead of applying it to the
> selection, it applies it to the whole line?? I have even noticed
> sometimes it applies it to the line and only part of my selection.
>
> This is quite disappointing as the styles tool is critical for me
> to work with very large documents.
>
> Also It think it would also be a lot more usable if custom styles
> appeared either at the top of the list or in a 'custom styles' tab.
>
> Kind regards,
> Peter
Perhaps you need to acquaint yourself more with all the things
that the Styles and Formatting window will do for you. If you are
using a paragraph style, changing it changes everything in the entire
paragraph that has not been manually formatted already, Changing a
character style will only change the characters that have that style.
If you want to change just part of a line you need to use character
styles for that.
May I recommend you go to this web page:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/. Download the
chapters on styles beginning with the one in the Getting Started
Guide. They should help you use styles to do what you want done.
Dan
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