Pradeep Srinivas wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 14:03, Peter Lazarus wrote (regarding [users]
deleting paragraphs changes styles):
OOo 2 has an annoying problem, at least to me. If I delete empty
paragraphs just before a heading paragraph, then the style of the heading
changes. Why is this? Why should the style of a paragraph change because I
delete unrelated paragraphs before? Is it because OO has to ape the
stupidity of MS Word?
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Peter,
Uh, yes, I have seen that problem as well...while I do not know if this is
a "bug" or a "feature" (or, for that matter, compare the relative
intelligence of the M$ Word developers vs OOo developers), here is something
you may want to try (to overcome your problem):
Do NOT select empty paragraphs by by doing a "shift + down_arrow", or by using
the mouse: instead, try to place the cursor at the start of the empty para
(without selecting anything), and hit backspace (NOT delete). You may need
to hit backspace a few times (if indented etc etc). This will clear the
empty line/paragraph, and put the cursor on the last + 1th character of the
previous paragraph. This will also not wreck havoc on the styles.
Do let me know if this does work. If it does not, errr....my apologies.
Hmmmm..... anyone on the list have a more elegant, easy solution ?
Pradeep Srinivas
Bangalore, India
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This is one of the most annoying features (?) of Word and OO and why I
would like to see a "Reveal codes" [issue 3395] like feature in OO.
FWIW, those around here that use both Word and OO find Word is worse
because in many cases it won't allow you to undo the automatic
formatting from time to time.
What I find causes the problem is when the closing tag for the style is
on a different line than the sentence or whatever is being affected. At
least with a Reveal codes type of feature, you could see exactly where
the style ends and put your cursor there. Sometimes the use of a
backspace is not an option.
This problem can also crop up when copying and pasting between documents
created and/or edited by multiple users on different OS's.
If you follow the suggestions of many on this list, it would be to
delete all the styles and then re-format the document.
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Robin Laing
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