I am so frustrated and annoyed at the styles popup appearing so regularly when
I am typing a document - I don't know what causes it to do so, I just want to
get rid of it absolutely - and also the possibility of any other popups popping
up. I have searched through the Writer Guide and can find
Hi.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:18:28 -0400
"Chris J." dijo:
Is there a list of common mistakes I can look at to try figuring out
I'm dong wrong?
Mistake 1) You didn't mention page styles. They would solve some of
your problems.
Mistake 2) Once you get a document created with the formatting
Hi Chris,
On 22/10/2023 17:18, Chris J. wrote:
A few details might change, but stories submissions to publishers and editors
have pretty much the same characteristics, in the States anyway; 1.00 inch
margin top and bottom, 1.25 inch margins right and left, Times Roman or Times
New Roman
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:18:28 -0400
"Chris J." dijo:
>Is there a list of common mistakes I can look at to try figuring out
>I'm dong wrong?
Mistake 1) You didn't mention page styles. They would solve some of
your problems.
Mistake 2) Once you get a document created with the formatting and
Hi.
A few details might change, but stories submissions to publishers and
editors have pretty much the same characteristics, in the States anyway;
1.00 inch margin top and bottom, 1.25 inch margins right and left, Times
Roman or Times New Roman font, 12pt, double spaced. Page numbers are
On 27/06/2022 01:15, Chris J. wrote:
> HI.
>
>
> Thank you, I'm beginning to figure out Master Documents. Still a few
> issues but we'll get to them or solve them no doubt with the least
> convenient method.
>
>
> Book editors and publishers have submission formats they will accept.
> They
HI.
Thank you, I'm beginning to figure out Master Documents. Still a few
issues but we'll get to them or solve them no doubt with the least
convenient method.
Book editors and publishers have submission formats they will accept.
They want a certain type face, size, margins and top and
This problem seems to be specific for a certain spreadsheet document of
mine. I once had those problems with the same file in Apache OpenOffice,
but I managed to fix it, but since I switched back to LibreOffice the
problems came back.
I have three styles that I apply by conditional formatting.
I tried that, and loaded the odt file into LO, but the styles still do not work.
I can see that they are “there” (in the list of styles).
Thanks for the suggestion.
LO isn’t much use to me if none of the styles that I carefully developed in my
Word template over the past 10 years will work in
For me on LO 4.3.7 I have literally hundreds of styles that have come
across from word docs and are working.
When you say not working, do you mean the style is in the list but you
can't apply it or the style is applied but doesn't look like it did in
the word document.
Can you share a document
I have a Word document (2011 Office for Mac) that I have opened in LO and saved
to the LO format (.ott).
However, the styles that were in the Word document now don't seem to actually
work in the LO document in LO writer.
If you select text or have the cursor in a paragraph, and then click a
At 19:39 15/04/2015 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
The other day I bought a new computer running Windows 8.1 and
installed LibreOffice 4.4.2.2. I BELIEVE it did work as usual. Today
I started a new job/document and wanted to apply my custom style.
However, the style and formatting menu DOES
On 2015/04/15 23:14, Brian Barker wrote:
At 19:39 15/04/2015 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
The other day I bought a new computer running Windows 8.1 and
installed LibreOffice 4.4.2.2. I BELIEVE it did work as usual. Today
I started a new job/document and wanted to apply my custom style.
Good evening
The other day I bought a new computer running Windows 8.1 and installed
LibreOffice 4.4.2.2
I BELIEVE it did work as usual.
Today I started a new job/document and wanted to apply my custom style.
However, the style and formatting menu DOES NOT appear any more.
Neither F11, clicking
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and 4.4.1.2.
Thank you -- Brian, Tom, and Tony -- for your help.
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Date: Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and Formatting Not Working
To: users
: Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and Formatting Not Working
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
At 20:27 21/02/2015 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:
Yes, the Styles and Formatting window does not appear.
Right. You've still not answered most of the questions
Yes, the Styles and Formatting window does not appear.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com
wrote:
At 20:29 20/02/2015 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:
The Styles and Formatting (F11) under Format did not work.
Er, do you mean that the Styles and Formatting
At 20:27 21/02/2015 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:
Yes, the Styles and Formatting window does not appear.
Right. You've still not answered most of the questions - including
what operating system you are using. But you appears to be using
Windows. So what happened, please, when you tried the
Hi :)
If the document's title-bar is dimming, indicating that the styles
menu-pop-up is off-screen then trying to either;
* set the screen display to a much higher resolution temporarily so that
you can drag the errant pop-up back into the normally visible area - or -
* rename your User Profile to
At 20:29 20/02/2015 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:
The Styles and Formatting (F11) under Format did not work.
Er, do you mean that the Styles and Formatting window does not
appear? Or does it appear but then not function in some sense? Can
you successfully select the type of style using the
Many, many years ago, I read somewhere that when a misfortune
comes, it does not come alone; it is accompanied by its companions or
to that effect.
Today, I had another problem. It could be called the #4 problem.
The Styles and Formatting (F11) under Format did not work. As I am writing
a book,
On 13/01/15 16:17, Wiebe van der Worp wrote:
On 13-01-15 11:54, Mike Scott wrote:
Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes?
...
However, I'd like to use styles to ensure consistency, and this appears
simply impossible - only one style, the box style, is available (in
Draw,
I mentioned irritations in another post, so thought maybe I'll give
one explicitly, as I've bumped into it (afresh) this week.
Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes?
I have a small project (I'm using Draw, but the problem also exists in
Writer and presumably the other
On 13-01-15 11:54, Mike Scott wrote:
Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes?
...
However, I'd like to use styles to ensure consistency, and this appears
simply impossible - only one style, the box style, is available (in
Draw, but not Writer!) and that affects all text(*)
This thing happens in both Apache OpenOffice Calc and LibreOffice Calc
which makes me thing I did something wrong, but after almost a year of
debugging and trying some different approaches, I still have no idea what
is going on.
I have a few styles that I made, but one of them keeps messing
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:02:44 +0100
Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote:
This thing happens in both Apache OpenOffice Calc and LibreOffice Calc
which makes me thing I did something wrong, but after almost a year of
debugging and trying some different approaches, I still have no idea
Hi :)
Yeh, i wondered the same but it is a different issue. As Joel pointed out
you can see the Bold button on the icon-bar is not de-pressed in when the
cursor is in the middle of the heading 3 text.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 10 September 2014 23:41, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
On
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kdRhc960qdMlFhVzAtTllETEU/edit?usp=sharing
There is one example file. Go to the very end, push enter a couple
times, and then set the style to Heading 3. If you look at the actual
style it's supposed to be bolded but it retains non bold from the
previous line
Hi :)
It is bold but Header 3 makes things grey in the Font Effects tab so it
just doesn't look as bold as usual.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 10 September 2014 16:01, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kdRhc960qdMlFhVzAtTllETEU/edit?usp=sharing
There is
LOL come on Tom - you know me better than that. It's not bolded for me -
I look at the bold icon and it is not pressed. Then when I push ctrl +
b the font changes to the bold like all the other heading 3'syou
should know that I wouldn't make such a mistake. If you really want
proof I can
Hi Joel,
Le 10/09/2014 17:01, Joel Madero a écrit :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kdRhc960qdMlFhVzAtTllETEU/edit?usp=sharing
There is one example file. Go to the very end, push enter a couple
times, and then set the style to Heading 3. If you look at the actual
style it's supposed to be
On 09/10/2014 08:21 AM, Sophie wrote:
Hi Joel,
Le 10/09/2014 17:01, Joel Madero a écrit :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kdRhc960qdMlFhVzAtTllETEU/edit?usp=sharing
There is one example file. Go to the very end, push enter a couple
times, and then set the style to Heading 3. If you look
Hi :)
Just confirmed on LO 4.2.6 on Ubuntu.
Of course Joel was right! The B button wasn't pushed in but in the styles
settings it was marked. I looked in the obscure only, not in the obvious.
I've also only just noticed several style changes in the UI that look
rather nice. Several icons look
Joel Madero wrote:
On 09/10/2014 08:21 AM, Sophie wrote:
Hi Joel,
Le 10/09/2014 17:01, Joel Madero a écrit :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kdRhc960qdMlFhVzAtTllETEU/edit?usp=sharing
There is one example file. Go to the very end, push enter a couple
times, and then set the style to
Don't be in too much of a rush to post a bug Joel. Wherever I type on a
blank line in your example file and set Heading 3 (either before or
after typing) I get 14pt Bold Liberation Sans text in a User Defined
colour. Which in my assessment is the correct behaviour.
Setting existing manually
Stays bold in Version 3.6:build-304 so a regression.
steve
On 2014-09-11 03:01, Joel Madero wrote:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kdRhc960qdMlFhVzAtTllETEU/edit?usp=sharing
There is one example file. Go to the very end, push enter a couple
times, and then set the style to Heading 3. If you
Hm - in bibisect package I can't confirm that, I went all the way back
to 3.5beta0 :-/ Can you add your findings to the bug?
Best,
Joel
On 09/10/2014 11:25 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
Stays bold in Version 3.6:build-304 so a regression.
steve
On 2014-09-11 03:01, Joel Madero wrote:
Hi :)
Calligra picked up on the styles correctly!
Regards from
Tom :)
On 10 September 2014 19:29, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
Hm - in bibisect package I can't confirm that, I went all the way back
to 3.5beta0 :-/ Can you add your findings to the bug?
Best,
Joel
On 09/10/2014
On 09/10/2014 03:06 PM, jomali wrote:
I downloaded the file and examined the parameters of the Level 3 style
in the document and found that, under Font Effects, Gray is checked.
Could this be the source of the difficulty?
No because the issue is that it's inconsistent, not that it's
Hi All,
Quick question. Are styles supposed to retain properties like bold. I
am consistently getting mixed results using styles. I can provide an
example if need be.
Best,
Joel
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Problems?
Well, styles are over-ridden by manual formatting, for one. So if a Style
specifies a bold font, but you click a button to turn it off, it should go
off.
Regards,
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Quick question. Are styles supposed to retain
Helen wrote:
I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of plays.
The plays came to me
in different styles -- three of the plays came to me with all the
characters's speaking lines
centered -- the characters's names centered a line above.
Some of the writers seem to have
At 09:46 26/06/2013 -0400, Helen Etters wrote:
I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of
plays. The plays came to me in different styles -- three of the
plays came to me with all the characters's speaking lines centered
-- the characters's names centered a line above.
On 2013-06-27 03:13, Fred James wrote:
Helen wrote:
I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of
plays.
The plays came to me
in different styles -- three of the plays came to me with all the
characters's speaking lines
centered -- the characters's names centered a line
The Find and Replace Dialog has an Option Search for Styles. There
you can search styles and replace them with other ones.
Hope this helps
Samuel
Am 18.02.2013 08:58, schrieb Jaap Bosman:
I do have a documnent with a lot of (12) styles.
My job is to make it a nice doc with only 4 styles
In
Does the Find and Replace thing work only in Writer, or in other components as
well? (I've seen it only in Writer).
Andrew
On 18/02/2013, at 7:10 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@gmail.com wrote:
The Find and Replace Dialog has an Option Search for Styles. There you
can search styles and
The dialog is available in Writer, Impress and Calc. Searching for
Styles worked only in Writer and Calc for me.
Samuel
Am 18.02.2013 09:20, schrieb Andrew K:
Does the Find and Replace thing work only in Writer, or in other components as
well? (I've seen it only in Writer).
Andrew
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Does the Find and Replace thing work only in Writer, or in other components as
well? (I've seen it only in Writer).
Andrew
On 18/02/2013, at 7:10 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@gmail.com wrote:
The Find and Replace Dialog has an Option Search for Styles. There you
I do have a documnent with a lot of (12) styles.
My job is to make it a nice doc with only 4 styles
In the list of used styles :
Head
Head 1
Head 3
Head Article
These 4 styles I want to change to Head 1
Do I have to crawl the doc for every style or could I use some automated
function?
This message [below] is not as I sent it -
I do not know how the bracketed information appeared in the
middle of my message -
I don't even know what [if you use Paste Special... to
paste unformatted text] means ;-)
But: footnotes are numbered -
.
Kinda slick actually.
But, with either method, I lost the contents of my footnotes. To date, I
haven't found a way with LO to convert formatted text to plain unformatted
text and keep footnotes.
Virgil
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in
libreoffice
At 18:14
At 08:28 22/12/2012 -0500, Virgil Aonly wrote:
I had never heard of the paste special feature, so I just tried
it. I started with an .rtf file that LO didn't like. I selected the
entire file with Ctrl-A, copied it (Ctrl-C) and then pasted it
special back onto itself as unformatted text. It
haven't found a way with LO to convert formatted text to plain unformatted
text and keep footnotes.
Virgil
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in
libreoffice
At 18:14 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote:
If you merely copy paste over the initial file
At 09:26 22/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote:
yes, footnotes become jumbled [if you use Paste Special... to paste
unformatted text]; but the fact these are numbered makes them 'find'able ;-)
I think you are making this up! If you copy the footnote text and
paste it (even if you don't use
.
Virgil
From: lordmax tdf
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Hi all
I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version
I'm working on many ebook in epub format.
Fortunately libreoffice has
, 10:13
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Hi all
Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk.
I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat all I never end
I can't remove all formatting and start from scratch because it take
. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your
content,
such as footnotes.
Good luck.
Virgil
From: lordmax tdf
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Hi all
I'm
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Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012, 10:13
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in
libreoffice
Hi all
Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk.
I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat
At 09:58 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne McGinnis wrote:
... it should take less time to 'select all' - paste into notepad
[thereby removing all formatting] - 'select all' and paste into a
new LO blank document.
You've said this a couple of times now, so it is worth pointing out
(perhaps for other
The KeepItSimpleS method is the way I've always found most effective;
saves having to memorize all those short-cuts - acronyms - ...
... ...
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote:
At 09:58 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne wrote:
... it should
At 12:24 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
Use of Edit | Paste Special... | Unformatted text (or Ctrl+Shift+V
| Unformatted text) in LibreOffice is all that is required. No
need for Notepad or any other separate software.
The
If you merely copy paste over the initial file, then the messed-up
formatting may still exist;
in order to be sure of eliminating whatever might be causing
the 'kink', the document needs to be fresh ;-)
I learned this when that silly .rtf was around ... I had a great
At 18:14 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote:
If you merely copy paste over the initial file, then the messed-up
formatting may still exist;
That's why that wasn't my suggestion!
in order to be sure of eliminating whatever might be causing the
'kink', the document needs to be fresh ;-)
Hi all
I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version
I'm working on many ebook in epub format.
Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful
My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess
with styles, fonts, etc
Really a chaos.
I need some way
, such as
footnotes.
Good luck.
Virgil
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From: lordmax tdf
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Hi all
I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version
I'm
.
Good luck.
Virgil
From: lordmax tdf
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Hi all
I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version
I'm working on many ebook in epub format.
Fortunately
to findfix
So, good work and congrats :)
Regards form
Tom :)
From: VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com
To: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2012, 0:22
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles pane in Writer
I
, November 10, 2012 8:28 AM
To: VA ; Dan Lewis ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles pane in Writer
Hi :)
Intermittent problems are still problems. If someone has a similar issue in
the future this thread may give them ideas to try or may build into being
@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2012, 14:08
Subject: Re: [Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles pane in Writer
I discovered my mistake, and it is truly embarrassing.
I use both LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice and, apparently, it is in the
OpenOffice fork that the style box won’t
.
I'm not asking too much, am I?
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:30 AM
To: VA ; Dan Lewis ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles pane in Writer
Hi :)
Ahh, that is interesting. Knowing how
I'm a huge proponent of paragraph styles, and I use them constantly in
Writer. One frustration I have is that when I call up the Styles pane
(F11), it typically lists the styles by Automatic by default. I then
always change it to list the styles in a Hierarchical fashion. I would
love to have
On 11/09/2012 03:25 PM, VA wrote:
I'm a huge proponent of paragraph styles, and I use them constantly in
Writer. One frustration I have is that when I call up the Styles pane
(F11), it typically lists the styles by Automatic by default. I then
always change it to list the styles in a
I keep it open all the time as well, but it never comes back to
hierarchical when I reopen Writer.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Dan Lewis
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 5:15 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles pane in Writer
On 11/09
@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles pane in Writer
I keep it open all the time as well, but it never comes back to
hierarchical when I reopen Writer.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Dan Lewis
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 5:15 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re
Are user defined styles only applicable to a document? I want to define a
global style, specifically in Calc, so that when I open a certain type of
csv, i can quickly format a set of columns for easy human readability. Thus
far, I've been able to format a column, define the style from that
Hi all,
Would like your opinion on the following.
When I'm make styles for a new template, I always create New styles,
usually with a common prefix in the name, to avoid some hypothetical
namespace conflict in the future, e.g. when copying or including parts
from one document to another.
Hello, how do I make specific paragraph styles to appear
permanently and by default in the Styles and Formatting window?
Can I move them to the Automatic set of styles? Thanks, *S*
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Sascha Vieweg saschav...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, how do I make specific paragraph styles to appear permanently and by
default in the Styles and Formatting window? Can I move them to the
Automatic set of styles? Thanks, *S*
I don't know how to do either of those,
Hi Sascha,
Sascha Vieweg wrote (09-03-11 12:22)
Hello, how do I make specific paragraph styles to appear permanently and
by default in the Styles and Formatting window? Can I move them to the
Automatic set of styles? Thanks, *S*
No, anyway not without hacking either somewhere in the code or
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