Thanks to all OOo Users who responded to my post about the following
problem:
When I select and Bold text, it is also Italicised and there is not way
of having Bold without Italics - I (we, including several OOo gurus)
have tired everything!
In the end, diagnostics pointed to a problem with system fonts. I went
into (Windows XP) Control Panel > Fonts and deleted the hundreds of new
fonts I installed from a commercial CD on the 1st May 2010, AND THE BOLD
ITALIC PROBLEM WENT AWAY!!!
I would especially like to thank Dave Barton, Russell Butler, and Harold
Fuchs who put quite a bit of time into researching this matter with me,
including in the case of Dave and Russell, corresponding off-list and
testing my documents and config files on their computers.
PROBLEM SOLVED!!! Thanks to all who added a piece to the diagnostic
jigsaw, and I hope we can help someone else in the future if they ever
encounter this problem.
Kind regards, James
On 13/05/2010 2:36 PM, Russell Butler wrote:
On 13/05/10 00:37, James Elliott wrote:
Hi Russell
Thanks for your offer to help by looking at one of my files. I have
attached a Things To Do List, which is a table within a Writer document.
On my Windows XP machine, if I bold any text then it also becomes
italicised.
Many thanks,
James
OK James
On my system (OOo 3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 AMD-64) I can't reproduce your
experience, but I don't have Thorndale font. Changing (in Table
Content Style) to Times New Roman, which I think it was using as a
substitute for the missing Thorndale, behaviour is entirely as I would
expect, using either the toolbar icons or Ctrl-B/Ctrl-I. Same if I do
it to the already Bold/Italic headers.
Sorry, I haven't advanced things at all, except in a negative sense.
Looks as though it must be something peculiar to your set-up.
I hope all those tasks weren't to be finished by the weekend ;-)
Regards
Russell
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