At 15:40 19/07/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
the document was begun with a certain 'default' of my devising, 11pt font-size, first line indentation, etc.
How did you do this? You may have modified a paragraph style (or created a new one), in which case you can now simply modify that style as you wish. But you may have set the paragraph properties of your first paragraph and then relied on each new paragraph inheriting the properties from its predecessor. Note that in this second case, your "default" has been applied as a paragraph property, whereas the first uses a paragraph *style* property; these are two different things. If you used the second method, I think you have a longwinded task ahead of you, with no "automagic" shortcuts.
suppose I invoke 'F11' etc and change the font to 'negreta'; Lo! all the text is dark! change font-size? nada.
That will be because you chose the first technique above, and your local character or paragraph formatting is overriding your change of paragraph style.
maybe I have inadvertently but passing strange it works with one kind of font formatting but not the other.
I think that will be because the "default of [your] devising" happened to modify - and thereby fossilise - the font size but not the font itself. The font is still game to be changed by a change in paragraph style.
Note that font size is a character property, a character style property, and a paragraph style property (but not a paragraph property, although an entire paragraph can be given a font size using the character property, of course). So you can set font size in various ways, and understanding what is happening can be confusing.
I know it is easy for me to say this now, but you can see why learning about and using styles is very useful in OpenOffice. You will reap rewards.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
