Hi, 2008/1/16, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > 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?
You wrote: "(currently 2.3.0 on Gutsy, using the version downloaded from OOo not the version in Ubuntu repositories)" - Maybe related to Issue 81764 (and a few duplicates) -> <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81764> [I couldn't reproduce the issue - only some short trials - with OOo 2.3.1 and OOo-dev 2.4m2 (XP)] Manfred --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
