Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's amazing that people have to learn how to drive and pass a test. There are so few controls. Usually a wheel or handle-bar or joystick to make the vehicle turn. Something to make it faster or slower. Maybe something to make it go up or down. So at most it's about 3 controls right? Sure

[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Peter West
> Oh yes and that hits the nail on the head. Now that the problem has > been defined, the solution becomes easy. Provide a way to SEE exactly > how the formatting has been applied - and a quick link shortcut to > removing it! Formatting/styles are - in my mind - similar to field > codes. Th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread A
On 11/28/2013 10:44 AM, Brian Barker wrote: As far as I can see: o Format | Default Formatting removes both direct formatting (to characters or paragraphs) and formatting by character styles. o The Apply Style drop-down applies paragraph styles, so you'd expect "Clear formatting" there to re

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:34 28/11/2013 +, Tom Davies wrote: The only thing it doesn't get rid of is when people press "Enter" or "Return" at the end of each line. There is a workaround for that, too: select the text and go to Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply. Amongst other reformatting, this combines single

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 05:25 28/11/2013 -0800, Peter West wrote: Here's an earlier post from Pablo Dotro: If you apply some direct formatting (i.e. bold something by hand), then apply some charactery style, then a paragraph style (with the format you really wanted in the first place)... what you get is a mix of a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) For my company's newsletter i sometimes copy&paste into a text-editor and then re-select and copy&paste from there. Fairly recently i found i could use Shift Ctrl v and go to the bottom of the pop-up box that gives me to "Paste as unformatted text" and that usually strips away all strange fo

[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread pbw
Here's an earlier post from Pablo Dotro: On 11/07/13 07:50, Virgil Arrington wrote: > Once you apply your style, you can clear any direct formatting by > selecting the text and hitting . Everything should then snap > to the style-controlled formatting. > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:45 27/11/2013 -0800, Peter West wrote: It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. It's a feature - and I don't think it's missing, in fact. The problem: If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been applied directly using a paragraph style menu, any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread A
Interesting... yours is the only post I've seen so far. On 11/27/2013 08:29 PM, pbw wrote: I don't know, because there were elements whose particular formatting I needed. But I know that that sequence on individual paragraphs does not work, for the reasons explained by others in earlier posts

[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread pbw
I don't know, because there were elements whose particular formatting I needed. But I know that that sequence on individual paragraphs does not work, for the reasons explained by others in earlier posts in this discussion. Peter West ...he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. On 28 Nov 20

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread A
Would "Select All" (CTRL-A), Menu->Format->Clear Direct Formatting (CTRL-M) not work for you? On 11/27/2013 05:45 PM, pbw wrote: It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. The problem: If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been applied directly using a

[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread pbw
It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. The problem: If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been applied directly using a paragraph style menu, any styles you define and apply as a style will be overridden by the direct formatting previously applied. Th