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Formatting is Selecting Entire Word
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:30 pm
by gary298
I frequently apply underline and strikethrough, and struggle with Writer assuming I want to apply the formatting to the entire word, or an adjacent word. How can I stop this behavior so that only the highlighted text has the formatting applied?
Re: Formatting is Selecting Entire Word
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:53 am
by Villeroy
Works for me. I select something and underline the selection or I get the entire word around the cursor underlined if nothing is selected.
Re: Formatting is Selecting Entire Word
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:49 pm
by Hagar Delest
Works fine for me also. Are you sure you don't double-click the word?
Re: Formatting is Selecting Entire Word
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:56 pm
by TheGurkha
What is the sequence you are using to apply the formatting?
I can be typing a word, turn on underlining, type a few more characaters, turn it off and then finish the word and the bit in the middle of the word is underlined and the start and end are not. This works whether I use Ctrl-U or click the Underline button to turn underlining on and off.
Also, if I select a portion of a word and turn on italics, bold or underlining it is only the highlighted segment of the word that is affected.
Are you doing something different?
- Examples of formatting parts of words.
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Re: Formatting is Selecting Entire Word
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:15 pm
by jrkrideau
gary298 wrote:I frequently apply underline and strikethrough, and struggle with Writer assuming I want to apply the formatting to the entire word, or an adjacent word. How can I stop this behavior so that only the highlighted text has the formatting applied?
Create a character style that does this and apply it ?
edit
If this does not work then maybe there is a problem with your installation?