For some reason, not knowing when it began, I’m can’t increase my font sizes in Writer. Currently my default font is Times Roman 12pt. The largest font I can increase to is 21pt. Anything larger it begins cutting the letters from the top down as each pt increases. Would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks in advance.
It is likely you forced manually a specific Line Spacing (fixed value).
Please, improve your question by adding to it OS name, LO version and save format. Most important, how do you format your documents? Manually (i.e. toolbar buttons or their equivalent shortcut keys) or styles?
The problem with manual (=direct) formatting, which is wrongly qualified “intuitive”, is your settings are independent from each other and you have no global view of them and their interactions.
For best analysis, attach a sample file exhibiting the issue.
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My operating system is Win10 pro. I’ve using a LO Writer templet. LO ver 25.2.2.2. Formatted by toolbar, saved “.doc”.
And some of your nomenclature like “manual formatting (=direct formatting)” I don’t understand. I’m pretty much not as skilled at LO/Write as some, sorry. I’ve included a sample attachment of my problem. I remember for the longest time I never had this problem.
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In your sample, all your text has a fixed Line Spacing of 0.46cm as can be seen in Format>Paragraph, Indents & Spacing tab.
Direct formatting (DF) is any formatting you apply manually outside styles. DF overrides the corresponding attribute(s) in styles. It thus defeats the automation and high-level control provided by styles.
It is difficult to suggest a fix because I have no idea why you set this 0.46cm fixed line spacing. It takes precedence over the line spacing implied from font properties (glyph size and leading above and below). A fixed line spacing is fine if it is way larger than all possible character sizes in a line. But when you have really tall glyphs, they are truncated according to manually forced line spacing (instead of causing this particular line spacing to grow).
In addition, you save .doc which is an alien format (not LO-native). Any alien format requires a conversion when opening the document and yet another one when saving. To make things worse, a round trip does not always return the same document encoding.
Also, M$ Word has a much poorer style feature. At best, you have paragraph styles. But all other styles (character, page, list, frame) are converted to direct formatting, resulting in a loss of information.
One particularly nasty point about DF is you have no feedback about the extent of its application (I don’t speak of size, colour, italic, …; I speak of these “indirect formatting” like line spacing, spacing above and below paragraph and to a lesser extent left and right indents).
Your best move is to learn how to work with styles (the Writer Guide is a good starting point) and save your documents native .odt.
Better suggestions if you describe what you want to do on the kind of documents you create.
Thanks friend, I’m going to do some more looking into this. I think I’ll get rid of the template and start over.
I did a factory reset and everything is working well. I sure do appreciate your help. Thanks again.
You sample is in .doc format. There are some good reasons for not using that format:
- It is obsolete (MS Office 1997-2003 format)
- In the event of corruption/damage to the file, nothing can be recovered.
- MS Office 1997-2003 format does not support many of the features of LibreOffice.
The standard blank document is a good place to start creating your own template. The default blank document is already very well structured, just changing the font in Default Paragraph Style will change the font for most paragraph styles, changing the font in Heading paragraph style will change it for its child heading styles.
If you have a specific need, you might find a suitable template in https://extensions.libreoffice.org/
Thanks for your insights, I didn’t know that. I rest the program to default, everything is in working order.
Mike
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