Calum Polwart wrote: > Surprised no-one has replied yet. From my understanding this needs > version 1.3.4 (which doesn't really exist yet!) Until then the > official line is you can't import character formatting, only para > formatting. > I was supposed to write a Wiki article on a work around I found - but > ran out of time. > > So the short answer is: If you can import into OO as a > database/mailmerge apply the formatting that way. so that you have a > OO document with character formatting. then save it in HTML format. > You can import HTML and it appears to apply bold/italics etc. As I try to envision the visual appearance of this, I have to ask whether this is something one should really want to do, and therefore, maybe it's not such a good thing to make it easy. After all, you can double-click the first word of each paragraph, then make it bold in Properties > Text (in Edit Contents of Frame mode) or Story Editor.
Greg
