Heading / Subsequent Text formatting weird behavior [closed]
Hello, I believe that the fresh installation of LO Writer Version: 6.3.4.2 has some strange behavior: Starting with a document that is formatted as Text Body, I then insert some lines of text which are formatted as Headings (1, 2, etc). The OLD behavior was that pressing Enter starts a new paragraph underneath, resets the formatting from current Heading to Text Body, and then formats the text as Text Body. New (buggy) behavior is that paragraph underneath still gets called "Text Body" EXCEPT IT CARRIES FORMATTING OF THE HEADING ABOVE IT (text is larger, bold, etc). Selecting text and specifying it to be Text Body HAS NO EFFECT. The only way to "fix" the formatting that alleges it is "Text Body" is to keep selecting other formatting types (such as Heading 3), and keep trying to then apply "Text Body" formatting. What used to be a milli-second operation now takes me 20 seconds to resolve FOR EVERY HEADING THAT I INSERT.
Linux Mint 19.3 LO Writer Version: 6.3.4.2
[UPDATE] The template was somehow at fault, not LO. See accepted answer and generally suggested editing behavior:
- Use built-in headings to apply "heading" information to a document.
- To change how "headings" look, DO NOT edit their formatting directly, but edit their style instead.
Just to make sure you didn't inadvertently activate some formatting, do the following test:
Ctrl+Mand also set character style (not paragraph style) Default StyleReturnto open a new Text Body paragraphGive outcome of this text either as an edit to your question (clearly identified) or as a comment.
@ajlittoz: Thank you for your comments! I will try them next time. I resorted to re-creating my template, clearing all formatting of affected files and re-applying headings to messed up files. Somehow, somewhere there is an issue hiding in my simple template. This issue is not occurring in other files. Turning ON formatting does not reveal the cause. I have never encountered a "broken" template like this, like it often happens in M$Word. I have NEVER seen an issue with LO barfing up formatting, and this issue just happened RIGHT AFTER an upgrade to 6.3.4.2. I guess stuff happens! I can only hope that the issue has been wiped out from my multiple files which have recently been typed up, all based on this buggy template.
@ajlittoz: I am struggling with attachments here. Here is the broken template. Any ideas? I am not a 100% I am following your steps exactly, so you can try for yourself!:
http://www.mkrd.info/uploads/tmp/DOC%...