Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 44511
random style changes after inserting paragraph
Last modified: 2005-06-13 11:02:43 UTC
I'm using Pavel Janik's build of m82 on Wiondows 2000, and there's a bad regression. Quite often, though this is hard to repeat, entering a paragraph return after or inthe middle of a paragraph formatted with any style other than default will lead to preceding paragraph changing suddenly, either to style "heading 3" or to default. I cannot tell you how irritating this is. I have had it on two machines, with both .sxw and .odt documents. I couosd attach my template if that is any help, but I have used it for two years without anything like this happening.
Try to deactivate the AutoFormat (Format - AutoFormat - While Typing) Please try to reproduce (see wh'at's special in that what you do or in the paragraph formatting) Your description doesn't allow to reproduce it -> WORKSFORME
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Well, it is a little random. I can't reproduce it reliably. But it is there, and makes OOo very difficult to use. I have been writing stuff with this template, and with autoformat turned on, for years without this effect. Would it help if I uploaded the file that has been giving me trouble?
yes please
Created attachment 23687 [details] file showing bad behaviour
Right. Here is a file where adding a paragraph to any of the coloured sections will cause the one above to change style to "text body indent". this may be a filter issue: it has been converted back and forth to Word format a couple of times in the course of collaboration. the same things happens when I edit the word format doc in OOo, by the way. This is a single, repeatable change. The habit of jumping into heading 3, which earlier drafts of the document were showing, seems to have disappeared. Steps to reproduce: place the cursor anywhere in one of the coloured quote passages of the document. Press <cr>
I am only wondering if what I know is relevant, but as I have the information and you dont I thought I would throw what I know in the pot too. You mention the use of converting to word format. (did you use word?) I have used word at work and had the same symptoms, but never used the document with OOo. Makes me wonder if the 'bug' is something word does at wrong time 1 but remains invisible until at time 2 an application (Word or OOo) correctly inserts a \n and the symptom shows up. When it happens to a word document, in word, I can make the problem go away by copying a good paragrah mark from somewhere else and pasting it over all the paragaph marks near where the problem is. The possibility of changing the docment state to suppress the word bug makes me think word can get a document to a faulty but visually correct state. ie I guess I am recommending a close inspection of the document model in the debugger with this doc loaded into memory. The behaviour I have seen in word makes me think there is a paragraph mark that is missing its paragraph type specification.
@andrewb: As alanchristiansen has asked you in his entry: Have you used Word to work/create this template? I have also strange things happen in my docs, when someone meanwhile has opened and corrected documents from me in Word ... :( If I use my document (or someone else using Linux or SO/OOo) this does not happen ...
No. the template was written in OOo, but is used for documents that are saved, and shared, in word format. I see that this problem was 22 versions ago, though, and I haven't had it since -- admittedly, I haven't been collaborating in exactly this style. So it may be OK to mark it as worksforme.
Removing myself from CC. NOTE: pj@openoffice.org is 'Peter Junge' NOT 'Pavel Janik'
Resetting to WORKSFORME and closing. Reopen if it happens again and if you have more info.
Closed