Re: [libreoffice-users] Format paintbrush broken

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:00:12 +0100
Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de> dijo:

> Hi John,
>
> John Jason Jordan schrieb:
> > I have LO 4.1.3.2 on Xubuntu 13.10, and previously used earlier
> > versions for many years on other distros and operating systems. The
> > format paintbrush always worked before, but now nothing happens. For
> > example, I place the cursor in a paragraph to which First Line
> > Indent paragraph style has been applied, click on the Format
> > Paintbrush icon (which makes the icon appear depressed), and then
> > click on a paragraph which has the Default style, and the paragraph
> > remains in the Default style. I have tried this with many other
> > types of formatting and none of the formatting of the first
> > paragraph is applied to the second.
> >
> > Bug? Or am I doing something wrong? How can I get my format
> > paintbrush back?
>
> There are several ways to use the format paintbrush. For details see 
> help 
> https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Copying_Attributes_With_the_Format_Paintbrush

Thank you. Apparently there has been a change between the previous
version and 4.1.3.2. In the past it applied all formatting; now it
applies only character formatting unless you hold down Ctrl. I'm not
sure I like this change, because I only ever use it to apply paragraph
formatting and now I have to remember to hold down Ctrl. It's probably
a good thing to separate character formatting from paragraph
formatting, but paragraph formatting is the far more common use of
format paintbrush, so that should have been the default, not character
formatting.

Oh well. At least I know it's not a bug.

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