Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 47242
Inconsistent application of paragraph and character formatting
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:35:07 UTC
My Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4 Dell Precision 650, Intel Xeon 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta (1.9.91) Description: Character styles appear to override (or dominate) paragraph styles, and there is no means of identifying which styles have been applied where. I have attached a document illustrating this. (Note that this document was prepared in Writer build 1.9.91 and I notice that opening it with an older build results in incorrect formatting and incorrect image rendering.) Brief summary: I changed the 'Default' paragraph style to be Verdana 10pt, but some text (also 'Default' according to the stylist) is displayed in Arial. The Stylist indicates that BOTH the character AND paragraph styles are 'Default' for both areas of text. Perhaps there is a character style overriding the paragraph style? But there is no facility in OOo Writer to discover the style assignments within a document. Word has a convenient selection mechanism in the Styles and Formatting sidebar (see document for illustration).
Created attachment 24974 [details] Illustration of inconsistent formatting
Requested is a way to better recognize if text is formatted with hard attributes or additional character styles like Ms Word does. Reassigned to requirements.
Unless I am mistaken (in which case, correct me), there is currently *no* way of determining whether text is formatted with 'hard attributes'. So I don't think it's right to talk about ways to 'better recognize'. I see this issue has been morphed into an enhancement: this would be OK if some method *did* exist which could be improved. This is also an area (one of many) where OOo could so easily distinguish itself in comparisons with Word. Although I pointed out that Word has the menu command to select all text associated with a paragraph style, Word documents can (and do) become utterly unmanageable through style changes. I believe this is a major usability issue.
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request. The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but has not been updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed. Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing): http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html