I've been using OOo for a number of years, using the 'old school' hard formatting up until recently (this heading is 16pt times roman, that paragraph is 9pt OptimaNovaLT, etc..)
Trying to use styles for the last few months has been nothing if not difficult. I've been battling with v2.2.something, and upgraded to 2.3.1 yesterday to see if my problem has been resolved. I've read the local help files and all the online documents and tutorials and gone through these forums, and can't see if i'm doing anything wrong.
My problem (sorry for long winded background!), is that after setting up styles on my small document:
- heading1
- heading2
- textbody
After a paragraph end (hard return), the 'apply style' box correctly shows what should be applied every time, but might only change the typeface of the correct style and not the size - or show the correct style but apply no correct formatting to it at all. No problem - i'll do this manually just this once.. But even selecting the paragraph i want and using either fill style or using the apply style box doesn't necessarily change the style, but the apply style box happily reports what it should be! It might get the indenting right (on a heading2, for instance), but ignore the typeface and size!
There's nothing weird going on in my 'conditions' of textbody, either - i've checked.
on an unrelated matter i can faintly see the edges of (invisible) tables/frames in the exported pdf even in lossless quality - is this expected?
Thanks for any help/advice you might have - i love the suite of software, but am going nuts with these styles!