On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:16:39 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote:
> 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. > > > -- > Felmon Davis Depending on the complexity of the document it can sometimes help to Select all and assign Default or Text Body paragraph style to the document. This may lose the Heading/Subheading formatting. In some cases I have been able to download an entire text (usually from Project Gutenberg), and after removing the unwanted end of line markings change the overall style to Default or Text Body. Then I could search for the Chapter Heading and apply Style Heading 1. I was able to format war and Peace in ten minutes using that method. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
