Calling Open Office Writer gurus

[Michael Knepher]

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 01:07 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> I have an oddity in Open Office Writer.
> 
> I have set up a paragrpah style - nothing complicated, it is based on
> default, with an indent and italicised text. The problem is that it when
> I apply it to text, I get everything excepot the italics. If I modify
> the style (F11, select the style, right click -> Modify) I can see that
> italics is in the style. And there are other sections of text,
> previously formatted with this style, that have the italics!
> 
> Of course I can manually set the text to italicised, but that defeats
> the purpose of having styles.
> 

Try selecting the offending text, then select Format -> Default
Formatting, and see if that fixes your problem. There may be some other
formatting applied to the text that is overriding the italics setting of
the style. 

> Any help gratefully appreciated.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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> Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)                   +61-2-64957160 (h)
> http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/                  +61-428-957160 (mob)
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