If the document looks wrong, and you can't find out why, then just select "default formatting" to clear all formatting. Then reapply the correct format. Two mouse-clicks, no waiting.
Jim Plante On Jan 20, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 12:38 20/01/2013 -0500, Helen wrote: >> I should have clarified what I meant by a troubling code. I meant >> something that I (or any user) might put in, and then later decide this is >> not exactly the way you want it, and so wish to make an adjustment. Your >> document looks wrong but you don't know how to find the formatting element >> that you inserted and now wish to delete. In WP, that is easy. Press Reveal >> Codes, find the code you don't want, and delete it. > > I'm with you all the way - except for the last three words! > > If your document "looks wrong but you don't know how to find the formatting > element that you inserted", you certainly need a simple way to discover this. > (I don't know whether any problems I have in this area are Writer's or > mine!) But users must not be allowed to make changes at that level; instead, > they must be required, having discovered what the problem is, to solve it > where it was caused. Anything else breaks the structure. > > Brian Barker > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
