Re: [libreoffice-users] Tabs in selection of text

Steve, I think you may have hit the nail on the head.  I'll look into 
upgrading and see if that changes anything.  I think the issue may well 
have been that I was selecting "paragraphs" with different formatting 
(my quotes aren't to draw attention but rather to indicate I don't mean 
only book-like paragraphs) and trying to apply tabs to those.  If I 
repeatedly use a specific format, I'd definitely consider Styles.  But 
there seem to be a lot of complicated considerations for using Styles 
(the nesting/heirarchy topics I mentioned in my other reply).

Anyway, thank you.

Carl


On 4/8/19 3:53 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> Hi.
> I am on 6.07 but your issue is dredging up some memories where I think I
> noticed the same situation.
> With a paragraph as a block of text terminating in a line break (rather
> than the older paragraph in a book interpretation), I think I noticed
> that when I selected multiple paragraphs with different tab settings
> that I couldn't edit tab settings in the ruler and there was no TAB tab
> in the paragraph format dialogue.
> This was before 6.07 which is not showing the issue, may have been 6.05
> or 5 series.
> In some cases I set the tabs one paragraph at a time, in others I  just
> set the default style for the block of text and then re-formatted
> characteristics, including tabs.
>
> If there are a lot of paragraphs to format the same way, I would suggest
> creating a style and then you can easily apply the same formatting
> repeatedly.
> Steve
>
> On 09/04/2019 00:34, Carl Paulsen wrote:
> > LO 6.0.5.2 on Mac Sierra (10.12.6)
> >
> > In some cases I can click into a line and set tabs normally.  In the
> > document where I had the problem I believe it was a bulleted list or
> > indented text (hanging indent I think) where I was having the
> > problem.  I opened the document today and quickly tried it again and
> > can't find the section I was having problems in.  But I'm pretty sure
> > I removed all formatting and started over in that section, at which
> > point it worked.  Wish I could reproduce it, as it was quite
> > frustrating.  My guess is it was something to do with whatever
> > formatting was applied in that section.  I don't yet use Styles so any
> > formatting would have been set manually, and that would have been
> > minimal.
> >
> > If I encounter it again I'll be sure to post again, and try to post a
> > sample document.
> >
> >
> > On 4/8/19 7:19 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 14:32:05 +1200
> > > Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi.
> > > > What version of LO do you have.
> > > > Just as a test, can you click into just 1 line and then add a tab stop
> > > > to the ruler.
> > > > Steve
> > > Also what OS?
> > >
> > > In addition, can you post an example of the text/document that you
> > > cannot format tabs for somewhere? Perhaps it is a data-dependent
> > > problem, since tab stops work as you expect for other people including
> > > me.

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