On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 15:13 19/07/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
I have a large document I work on this time of year. the default font size
is 11pt but now I want to change it to 10.5pt - gonna make it into a
booklet. simply altering the 'default' setting does not automatically
modify the font size through the document.
This depends on what you mean by the "default setting". I'm guessing that you
have changed the value at Tools | Options... | OpenOffice Writer | Basic
Fonts (Western) | Default - and you are right: this changes the default for
new documents only and not anything in a document currently open for editing.
ok, so that's settled.
I don't want to 'select all' since there are other font sizes bound to a
couple of 'styles' I'm using.
Good: that wouldn't be the best solution. But you are using more styles that
those "couple" you describe, since every paragraph will have a paragraph
style with its own font size. If you have not knowingly ascribed a paragraph
style to any part of your document, they may have the Default paragraph style
(not to be confused with the default set in Options as above).
I have given some types of paragraph a style, e.g. titles of each
essay are 'Header 1' so I can build a Table of Contents and they have
some special formatting, etc. that all works.
how do I change a setting and have it 'propagate' automagically through the
document? or is that not possible?
o Go to Format | Styles and Formatting (or click the Styles and Formatting
button in the Formatting toolbar, or press F11).
o Select the Paragraph Styles button in the button bar of that window.
o Put the cursor into your text to see which paragraph style is highlighted
as being used.
everything says 'default'.
o Right click the paragraph style and select Modify... .
o Modify the font size as required.
o If this doesn't change all the relevant parts of your document, repeat in
unaffected parts and change those paragraph styles too.
so basically I have to go through the whole document and select pretty
much every paragraph I want modified?
not the automagic I sought.
but the magic incantation, 'so be it', always works.
maybe copy and paste into a suitable template?
No need.
curious. would this work? suppose I build a template according to
taste, open an empty document based on it and then copy and pasted
in the text I'm working on? of course, I'm assuming the template has
the same paragraph types, etc., as the text.
I trust this helps.
you trust correctly.
f.
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Felmon Davis
I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less.
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