On Saturday 02 February 2008 11:23:18 mike scott wrote:
> On 2 Feb 2008 at 17:01, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 10:10 02/02/2008 +0900, James Elliott wrote:
> > >I was using OOo 2.3 Writer [...]. I defined the style of each of
> > >these headings as "Heading 5" style. However, when I looked at the
> > >page the fonts appeared to be slightly different in size or weight
> > >for the differing headings, so I used the Format Paintbrush to copy
>
> ...
>
> > A bit of experimentation suggests that some character-level
> > formatting overrides the paragraph style setting. So if you apply a
> > paragraph style and then change, say, the font size of part or even
> > all of the paragraph, your applied font size will take
> > precedence. If you reapply the paragraph style, this evidently
> > clears some character-level formatting, including font and font
> > size. I don't know the details.
>
> That's the odd thing. From my experience (2.3.1/XP), paragraph
> formatting /doesn't/ clear character formatting - an example is trivial
> to concoct. I've been irritated for some weeks over this, having found
> no way to clear such character formatting (on one piece of text I ended
> up doing a cut and paste-special just to get rid of what I'd evidently
> applied at some stage).
>
> The interaction of paragraph styles, character styles and explicit
> setting of character properties doesn't seem terribly well defined, at
> least from the user's perspective :-(
I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you have the Styles and
Formating window (use the F11 key to open it), Click the Character Styles
icon (the letter A) in its toolbar. Make sure the dropdown list at the bottom
of this window has Applied Styles selected. Click one some of the words in
the paragraph to see what character style each of these words has. If it is a
style you have created, you can then delete your custom style. Finally,
highlight the entire paragraph and double click the Default character style.
While you could just highlight all the text and then double click the
Default character style, this would not remove the custom style you created
or the modification you might have made to an existing style.
One more point that I forgot at the beginning. If instead of creating a
new custom style, you modified an existing one, you need to find that style
and change it back to what you want it to be. By having the Styles and
Formating window open as well as having the Character Styles listed, you can
click on the words to see what styles you had used and modified. Then it is
just a matter of modifying that style again so that it contains what you
want.
Dan
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