Hi John,
Andreas Martens wrote:
Hi John,
John Barberio wrote:
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Paragraphs can be joined by user action of delete at the end of a
paragraph or backspace at the beginning of an un-indented paragraph.
Paragraph formating style from the paragraph with editing focus will
be applied to the joined paragraph. (Delete retains formating of
first paragraph, backspace retains formating of second paragraph.
Backspace on beginning of an indented paragraph first removes the
indent as defined in "Bullets and Numberings part 1, 7.4")
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Note the problem here. The Backspace key under this behavior had not
one, not two, but *three* context based actions. One of which is very
counter-intuitive, and afaik, still undocumented.
Under this behavior, you can not join two paragraphs with indents and
'save the formating of the paragraph', since backspace destroys the
indent, and the format of the paragraph with focus is always applied.
You can also use CTRL+Backspace at Pos 1 of the current paragraph to
delete the paragraph end sign of the previous paragraph. So you will
keep the indent of the current paragraph.
Please feel free to send me an issue regarding the whole paragraph
joining behavior directly to fl at openoffice.org. That one will not be
closed for sure. I am already aware of this issue and there are thoughts
on this, but it is always better to have real customer requirements/pain
points.
You may have wanted a system that lets you choose how to join
paragraphs with a single button press, but this one has a major
design bug when used with indented paragraphs.
[..]
at least I'm able to offer a two-button-work-around:
If your cursor is at the beginning of the paragraph which indents and
style you want to preserve, don't press <backspace>,
press <shift>+<cursor-left> instead, followed by <delete>
Regards
Andreas
Hope this helps.
Regards
Frank
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User Experience StarOffice 20097 Hamburg, Germany
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