I am reposting this message as the first never did show up. Sorry if some of you see it twice.
----original message---- From: Jon Harringdon <jonathan.harring...@virgin.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:24:22 +0100 Subj: LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking Hi, I've run into two small problems with LO Writer (on XP/SP3+updates; LO 4.2.5 portable) for which I've found no obvious help online. The first is a simple convenience thing. I often highlight some text and have to un-highlight it a little later. This should work like setting/resetting italic or bold attributes: pressing the highlight icon does highlight the marked text and pressing it again (with the same text marked) should remove the highlight. Well, it doesn't. Either I'm too thick to find out how to do that or it doesn't work as I expect. (I know that I can remove any highlight by explicitly setting the colour box to "no fill" but switching back and forth all the time is really annoying.) Second, I want to set the page size (Format>Page>Page) to 0.5cm on all sides. I enter 0.5cm in the first box and then press Ctrl-A/Ctrl-C to then copy that into the other three boxes. After pressing Ctrl-C, Writer completely hangs for three, four, sometimes five seconds (on first use of this dialog, later on it seems to be OK). I've checked this with a process monitoring tool and the Idle process at all time has around 95% or more so I am not sure what is happening here. Some more observations: It would be great if the sidebar would actually remember the panel that was last used. I almost never use fonts etc directly but use styles instead. However, the first thing I have to do every single time I start Writer is to change that sidebar from "Properties" to "Styles and Formatting". The start screen of the suite (showing the recently opened documents) is primitive, to say the least. For one thing, I'd expect to be able to remove documents (let's say, in a context menu that opens with a right click). It would also be great if one could move the various documents around. These are not bugs of course, just suggestions that'd make things a little easier. Is this the best way of posting such things? Jon -- 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