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 2013, at 2:07 pm, A [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <ml-node+s969070n4085305...@n3.nabble.com> wrote: > 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 paragraph style menu, any styles you define and > > apply as a style will be overridden by the direct formatting previously > > applied. There is no way that I have found to remove it, except by a > > manual > > change using the paragraph style menu. That fixes my problem, but passes > > the same problem on to the next person who wants to change the paragraph > > styling. > > > > I have just had to do this. The document was an imported Word .doc, but > > the > > principle seems to apply everywhere. > > > > How to fix it: > > Add Format menu items "Clear all paragraph/character(/list?) formatting." > > It > > doesn't actually remove all formatting, but applies a default format which > > clear all the problem formats and allows a style to be cleanly applied. > > > > List formatting is such a delicate matter that I don't know whether a clear > > all list formatting operation would cause more trouble than it's worth. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A-feature-or-tp4064910p4085301.html > > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [hidden email] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A-feature-or-tp4064910p4085305.html > To unsubscribe from A feature, or ...?, click here. > NAML -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A-feature-or-tp4064910p4085306.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
