On 2008-08-21 18:50 Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 21/08/2008 23:06, emf wrote:
I am working on a long document originally created with WP. Among
other things, I want to change the default font (the document contains
other fonts too). In WP I would change it in the very first code of
the Reveal Codes. How can I do it in OOWriter?
Eustace
* Go to Format>Styles and Formatting (or press F11) to bring up the
Styles and Formatting panel.
* Click on the leftmost icon at the top, which represents paragraph
styles - you'll see that if you hover the mouse over the icon.
This will bring up the list of available paragraph styles.
* Right click on the style named "Default"
* Click Modify
* Click the Font tab
* Choose the font you want from the drop-down list
* Click OK.
Dear Harold.
When I followed your directions with the document open, I found that the
Default style already had the font I wanted, I should have already
changed it for all new documents. So I just closed the Styles and
Formatting dialog. The default, however, font of the document did not
change, it remained like it was... I tried changing the Default style to
a third font, and then back to the desired one, but that still had no
effect on the document. Can you gather from this what is going on?
I also tried doing what you suggest after selecting the whole document
with Ctrl+A, but again the Default style in the Styles and Formatting
dialog showed as the new font, while in the document it still is the old
one... Should I suppose that the style of the paragraphs of the document
is not the Default style in the dialog? But then I checked the other
styles, and did not find the font I want to change in the document.
I also tried starting a new paragraph in the document, and it used the
document's old font, not the Default in the Styles and Formatting dialog.
The font of all text in the default paragraph style will change to the
font you just chose. You can change other attributes such as font size
or typeface in the same way.
I tend to think that the default font of the original WP document has
not become the Default paragraph style of the OOWriter document... But
then which style is it?
The concept of "styles" is key to OpenOffice, especially if you plan to
write/edit longish documents with reasonably sophisticated formats. I
recommend the chapters on styles in the Writer Guide at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide
Thanks. I have also been thinking that it would be a good idea to find a
book on Open Office and read it through, like I once did with WP. Do you
have a suggestion? I am not interested only in the Writer, but also in
the Calc and the Draw... Or do you think I might as well postpone this
until I get OO 3?
Thanks,
Eustace
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