[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

I don't know, because there were elements whose particular formatting I needed. But I know that 
that sequence on individual paragraphs does not work, for the reasons explained by others in 
earlier posts in this discussion.

Peter West

...he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins.

On 28 Nov 2013, at 2:07 pm, A [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] 
<ml-node+s969070n4085305h15@n3.nabble.com> wrote:

> Would "Select All" (CTRL-A), Menu->Format->Clear Direct Formatting 
> (CTRL-M) not work for you? 
>
> On 11/27/2013 05:45 PM, pbw wrote:
>
> > It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. 
> >
> > The problem: 
> >
> > If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been 
> > applied directly using a paragraph style menu, any styles you define and 
> > apply as a style will be overridden by the direct formatting previously 
> > applied.  There is no way that I have found to remove it, except by a manual 
> > change using the paragraph style menu.  That fixes my problem, but passes 
> > the same problem on to the next person who wants to change the paragraph 
> > styling. 
> >
> > I have just had to do this.  The document was an imported Word .doc, but the 
> > principle seems to apply everywhere. 
> >
> > How to fix it: 
> > Add Format menu items "Clear all paragraph/character(/list?) formatting." It 
> > doesn't actually remove all formatting, but applies a default format which 
> > clear all the problem formats and allows a style to be cleanly applied. 
> >
> > List formatting is such a delicate matter that I don't know whether a clear 
> > all list formatting operation would cause more trouble than it's worth. 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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