In another thread about the same subject, acknak wrote:
I have followed all of acknak's advice. I would happily use a slightly smaller bullet if that would help, but I know of no way to scale it as he suggests. I tried selecting everything from the end of the preceding paragraph through to the 1st word of the 2nd paragraph, and changing the font size, but nothing changed.The best way to get consistent, manageable formatting in OO is to use styles exclusively. Once you start using direct formatting (toolbars, Format > Paragraph > ...) it can be difficult to straighten out.
At any rate, the usual culprit with uneven spacing in bullet lists comes from the bullet symbols. OO Writer often uses a different font for the bullet symbol and the symbol font is slightly larger than the text font and thus changes the line spacing. A bullet can also be scaled, so its size may simply be larger than the text line height.
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Here's the best approach I know of to cleaning up list formatting:
Select all the list items
Turn off the bullets (click the toolbar button, maybe twice, until the bullets are off)
Turn on the bullets (click the toolbar button once)
There has to be a solution, as I can't believe anyone would want the choice of either no spacing or too much spacing.
If you need I can upload the part of the actual document. That's possible because in this case the material is right up front. When the material in question is well inside the document, I always have a problem. It's part of a large novel (377 pages) which I do not want to allow everyone to download (no offense to anyone). When I copy just the important part to a new document, I lose the styles from the old document. If someone could explain how to clone all the styles to a new document without copying the entire file and then deleting all the text except the part that is important, I'd really love that.
Ed