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[Solved] All turns Bold when selecting a line
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:29 pm
by Dionysos
Hello,
In LIbreoffice 5.3.6.1 (see my spec), when I select a part to format with center or bold then the rest of the document, 100 pages is affected. Anyone has any idea what causes this problem. I downgraded from the newer version to avoid this problem. But it persists.
THanks
D
Re: All turns Bold when selecting a line.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:11 pm
by Zizi64
You probably modified the "Default" paragraph style and that style was applied for all of the text.
Please upload your ODF type sample file here (to examine the applied styles).
The direct formatting function works well in my LO 5.3.6 portable version.
Re: All turns Bold when selecting a line.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:29 pm
by Bill
You may have the paragraph style set to AutoUpdate. If so, right-click the paragraph and select Styles > Edit Styles. On the Paragraph Style dialog, select the Organizer tab and uncheck the AutoUpdate option. Select the Font tab and select the Regular Style instead of the Bold style.
Re: All turns Bold when selecting a line.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:42 pm
by Dionysos
oK Thank You both. Bill, what is the effect of autoupdate? That whenever the default is being changed then every part made with the default will automatically change? I wonder if then it isn't an advantage because if I need to make the font bigger, f.ex then I can just do it all at once. Or do I misunderstand something?
Re: All turns Bold when selecting a line.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 9:01 pm
by Bill
Without AutoUpdate, direct formatting applied to a paragraph is applied to that paragraph only and the paragraph style is not modified. With AutoUpdate, the paragraph style is modified and no direct formatting is applied to the paragraph. Usually if you want to make the font bigger "all at once", you manually change the setting in the paragraph style. There's no advantage to using AutoUpdate if you want to occaisionally use direct formatting to change the format of an individual paragraph because the format would always be applied automatically using the paragraph style, which would extend the format change to other paragraphs.