Sorry, no I missed that (didn't see "applied styles" on the list).
That gives me what I would expect, 9 styles in use, default and normal paragraph styles, body text,
footer, footnote, caption, table contents, table heading, and frame contents. I think these are
defined in the default style. Nothing hits me as odd there.
Thanks,
John
======
On Wed, 2025-05-28 at 16:28 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote:
John -
When you looked at View > Styles, did you select Applied Styles from the
drop-down list at the bottom? The list should contain only the styles
that are actually being used.
Good luck with the reformatting. I hope that using the correct font
fixes things.
- Robert
On 2025-05-28 15:37, John Iliffe wrote:
Thanks Robert:
The formatting toolbar bounces back and forth between "default paragraph formatting" and
"normal"
depending on which paragraph I have under the cursor. This doesn't seem to be related to where
the
border/text box shading was applied. No other formats that I could find. When I open
view|styles
there are several page lengths of entries in the list. Looks like all possibilities since I
know
some of them would not be used as I don't know what they are.
When I was scrolling through the document I did notice a number of places where text boxes
overlay
the base text even though they are formatted as wrap right or left, where drawings are not
obeying
their anchor points, sometimes on the wrong page, etc. So I have some major reformatting to do
to
this chapter now that I have it back in a workable form. It would seem, although I haven't
checked
in detail yet, that the tts fonts that we use (third-party, commercial) did not get included on
the
last update since the fonts are not identified with their proper names. LO seems to be trying
to
find a similar font and that has everything spread around on the pages incorrectly because the
point
size is wrong for these fonts. I pulled a chapter that hasn't been changed and that is muddled
too
so I'm going to try to re-import the fonts. That might fix the problem of incorrect spacing.
Regards,
John
======
On Tue, 2025-05-27 at 06:51 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote:
John -
I'm glad your problem has been identified. I'm curious about why it
affect some paragraphs and not others. Have you checked what paragraph
style is indicated at the left end of the Formatting toolbar (near the
top of the LO window)? My guess is that, for historical reasons, you
have a mix of different paragraph styles being used. It would be good to
identify whether that is the case, because it can lead to
other formatting inconsistencies, sometimes subtle.
If you open the Styles dialogue (View > Styles) and select Applied
Styles from the drop-down menu at the bottom, you can immediately see a
list of all the styles that are used in the document.
- Robert
On 2025-05-26 21:00, John Iliffe wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied to this request.
Steve Edmonds was kind enough to take a look at the full document and he found out how to
remove
the
extra text boxes. He suggested that I could highlight any of the affected paragraphs and
then
edit
the border style to set the border to no border. Interestingly, when I did that to one
paragraph
they all went back to where they should have been.
There were two odd features to this problem: first not all paragraphs were affected; second
some
bulleted lists had the list items boxed and some second level items (not all) were boxed
again
inside the unwanted box so I ended up with nested boxes.
I must agree that in trying to fix it I was thinking inside a border myself because when the
problem
occurred I was trying to insert a text box I expected the problem to be related to text
boxes
and it
was actually an errant paragraph style. Why it only hit some and not all paragraphs and why
bulleted lists were also hit in some cases remains a mystery (to me anyway!).
I would like to give a general statement of what happened in case anyone else encounters
something
similar but frankly I don't understand either the cause or the fix so I have nothing of
interest
to
say except it sure is nice to have folks who are willing to help.
John
======
On Sat, 2025-05-24 at 20:35 -0500, Michael Reich wrote:
It sounds like you may have unwittingly edited the paragraph style to add the box, and now
all
paragraphs with that same style have a box. Take a look at your paragraph styles? If
that’s
the
case, Libreoffice didn’t malfunction, but complied with what you may have inadvertently
done.
f them. The preference seems to be for bulleted lists, of which there are many, to have
each
list
item boxed but some paragraphs have been boxed too, sort of randomly.
Some boxes are supposed to be there and were in the original that I was editing but most
are
not
required at all. Edit|Undo doesn't get rid of them and now I have saved the document so
as
not
to
lose the updates so I can't try that again.
The problem here is that I am updating a chapter of a book and I could pull it in from
the
previous
edition but then I would have to find and retype all the changes and there is no
reference
for
that.
The chapter is 37 pages long and contains embedded graphics so I have to be careful what
I
change.
In the end I would still need to insert the text box.
To add insult to injury I'm on a deadline to get the next edition out.
Has anyone any idea what might have happened? Better yet how can I unbox all the
previously
existing text without losing the text in the boxes? It is possible that while typing I
accidentally hit a control key but if so I don't know which.
Info: LO 24.8.6.2 (X86_64)
Fedora 41
Document is in .odt format but has been edited/converted many times in other word
processors
starting with Word Perfect 5!
Any suggestions very much appreciated!
John
--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Context
Privacy Policy |
Impressum (Legal Info) |
Copyright information: Unless otherwise specified, all text and images
on this website are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
This does not include the source code of LibreOffice, which is
licensed under the Mozilla Public License (
MPLv2).
"LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are
registered trademarks of their corresponding registered owners or are
in actual use as trademarks in one or more countries. Their respective
logos and icons are also subject to international copyright laws. Use
thereof is explained in our
trademark policy.