Hello Dale, On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:28:15PM -0500, Dale Erwin wrote: > On 9/17/2011 5:38 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > >At 14:28 17/09/2011 -0500, Dale Erwin wrote: > >>I have defined some custom paragraph styles in a loop so that I can > >>enter several similar paragraphs without having to stop and format > >>each one as I go. Some of them are normal and some of them are bold. > >>One of them is in a larger point size and different typeface. As I > >>type in my information, every time I press the Enter key, the next > >>line begins the new paragraph and it is reflected in the highlighted > >>paragraph style name in the Styles window, however, it always carries > >>with it the same font characteristics of the previous paragraph, > >>regardless of what is defined in the style for this paragraph. > > > >I cannot reproduce what you describe,
neither can I. I tested with a set of custom paragraph styles, using the "Next Style" feature in the "Organizer" tab, when editing each style. > >so perhaps there is something else > >that you are doing. I notice that if local character-level formatting is > >applied to the end of one paragraph, then the new paragraph generated by > >pressing Enter will have the correct paragraph style applied - a > >different one in your case - but will also inherit the same > >character-level formatting. Is that what you are seeing? The way to test > >this would be to select the text of the new paragraph, or part of it, > >and then use Format | Default Formatting (or Ctrl+M) to cancel the > >character formatting. Do you then see the effect of your new paragraph > >style correctly? > > > >>If I open the styles window and double click on the ALREADY > >>HIGHLIGHTED style name, then the proper formatting will be applied to > >>my text. > > > >Oh, I don't see that either in my scenario, so perhaps - after all - it > >doesn't explain your problem. > > > >>I find this extremely annoying and wonder what purpose the styles > >>serve if not to prevent this very thing. > > > >No doubt I'd find it annoying too, if it were happening to me. > > > >I trust this helps (but fear it may not). > > > >Brian Barker > > > > There is only one paragraph that has any local formatting because it > needs some mixed bold/normal formatting on the same line which > cannot be accomplished with the paragraph styles. did you try Character Styles. It is not good to use hard formatting, makes it harder to change things later > I have created a band-aid fix. Since all pages are the same, I > recorded a macro to double-click each of the style names. While it > did save a lot of time, it could have been much simpler to use that > macro if there were a way to leave the macro window open after using > it instead of having to go back into the directory and trace the > tree down again to be able to run the macro again. you can bind a shortcut key to that macro: Tools - Customize - Keyword, in "Category" select "OpenOffice.org Macros" and look for your macro. Anyway, there should be a better solution for your problem. Can you upload a test document in some public site? If your document has private information, create one using the Dummy Text Auto-Text. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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