<div>On 7/27/07, Karl Auer <<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. Any help gratefully appreciated. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au"> kauer@biplane.com.au</a>) +61-2-64957160 (h) <a href="http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/">http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/</a> +61-428-957160 (mob) -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> I am no guru, but maybe this could help: before applying the style, try to reset the paragraph to the default by clicking ctrl+shift+spacebar. This is because the style does not override manual formatting (although this does not seem to be the case for you... Cheers, Michele