On 2008-08-23 02:31 Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Le Samedi 23 Août 2008 06:10, emf a écrit :
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OK, I think I've started getting the idea: I have to click on each
paragraph and assign a particular Style, not the default which means
it has no assigned style. It's a little tedious, but is a one time
only effort. Please, however, confirm that this is unavoidable.
No, default means "Default" paragraph style, that you can modify at your
convenience for the current document (Menu Format > Styles and
Formatting...)
JBF
Dear Jean-Batiste.
I am afraid I have to partially disagree - which does not mean that I
think I am right and you are wrong, rather that my experience so far has
been different. Why? Because:
I have opened a WP document in OOWriter. I click inside a paragraph. In
the formatting toolbar I see the first field: Default, and next to it:
Courier New. Now, I click the icon on the left of the bar and the Styles
and Formatting dialog opens. Default is highlighted. I right-click it
and select Modify... The Paragraph Style: Default dialog opens. I click
the Font tab, and I see that the specified (and highlighted) font is
Lucida Console.
So, when I have not assigned specifically a style to the paragraph, it
uses the formatting of the original WP document and names it Default style.
So, so far we have two Default styles. The one that I have specified as
Default (with font Lucida Console), and the one of the WP document (with
Courier New).
Now if I click inside the paragraph and then click the arrow next to the
Style field in the Formatting toolbar and then click the (highlighted)
Default, the font of the paragraph changes to Lucida Console, and hence
the style of the paragraph changes from the original paragraph Default
style (with Courier New) to the specified paragraph Default style (with
Lucida Console).
And if I click on a title (which had a specified style in the WP
document), I see another Default, this one with higher font size and
with Center justification... So now we have 3 Defaults and so on.
So, when I opened the WP document in OOWriter, it characterized as
Default style all the different paragraph formats and styles of the
original, and did not apply the Default format of the Styles and
Formatting automatically.
And if I modify the Default style, it does not affect all the different
paragraph Default styles of the opened document, only the style of the
one paragraph to which I applied it specifically.
So I have to go over the document and change the automatically assigned
(during the conversion) Default styles to other styles (Title, Subtitle,
First Line Indent, Hanging Indent, and so on).
The "Default" you describe applies only to the Default styles of the
paragraphs to which it has been assigned specifically, and to the
paragraphs of a document created with OOWriter.
It would be nice if the conversion process would find all the different
paragraph styles used in a document opened in OOWriter, and assign to
them styles named Style 1, Style 2, Style 3, and so on, instead of
calling all of them Default. Than I would have to change, for example,
Title style to the formatting of Style 1, assign Title style to the
paragraphs that have Style 1, and then delete Style 1, and so on for the
rest of the numbered Styles. Probably the work wouldn't be much easier,
but it would be more mechanical.
Eustace
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