Long ago I developed the habit of using keyboard shortcuts for text attributes (italic, bold and bold-italic, underline) and for paragraph formatting such as left, right and center. I have used OOo since StarOffice 5.0 on Windows (currently 2.3.0 on Gutsy, using the version downloaded from OOo not the version in Ubuntu repositories) and since the very beginning years ago I have had odd things happen with the shortcut keys.
Let me give an example of what I mean. Let us suppose that in the middle of a sentence I wish to turn on italic, so I hit Ctrl-i, type the words that i want in italic, hit Ctrl-i again, and continue typing in normal text. Now, for some reason this will work fine sometimes, and other times the minute I hit Ctrl-i the second time it un-italicizes the word I just typed. Sometimes moving a space off before hitting Ctrl-i the second time will make it work correctly, but sometimes I can move it to an entire new line and it still un-italicizes the previous word. Once this starts the only solution is to type the next word in italic and then change the formatting of the next word back to normal with the mouse. Tonight I have just encountered a new problem. I had hit Ctrl-i in order to type one word in italic in the middle of a sentence. After typing it I hit Ctrl-i again and it turned off italic. I did this repeatedly while creating a document of several pages. It worked exactly as it is supposed to until suddenly it stopped working. That is, Ctrl-i turns on italic, but will not turn it off again. It doesn't un-italicize the preceding word, it just refuses to toggle italics off. However, it only happens in one paragraph. The formatting of the paragraph is Default style, and I selected the entire paragraph and used Format > Default Formatting, but the problem continues in that paragraph. Does anyone have any suggestions? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
