Embolden feature is spasmodic

Hollyberry-1 · February 19, 2021, 5:13pm

Curious recent event whereby the highlight and embolden feature is spasmodic.
I use emboldened entries to a WIn97 style document thus:-
9 AM TUESDAY - made coffee and read paper
10 AM TUESDAY - Removed sump from gearbox

When I do this I sometime press the “B” button first or if I forget I will highlight the header and then push “B”
This works spasmodically - sometimes emboldening only some of the letters. If I go back and persist with highlighting sections not more that 2 chars I can sometimes get it done in pairs but not more that 2 letters.
This is a recent thing. I have used Open Office and then Libre Office for 15 years and I am familiar with the document section.
I would appreciate any help.
BTW - I have an updated version downloaded. Would the installation of that be likely to cure this? Obviously I have rebooted several times to no advantage.
Regards
BerryG

mikekaganski · February 20, 2021, 5:15pm

This would be a bug - please file it, with specific steps to reproduce (if that’s only reproducible in a specific document, then that document (possibly sanitized to remove sensitive info) would be needed in the report).

Hollyberry-1 · March 27, 2021, 9:15am

Thanks for your response. I have added to my initial post here with some photos and will attempt to FILE IT as a report. However, I may need some help to do even that. Thanks again for your response. Appreciated. {Sorry unable to lodge a bug report! Need to register}

Jedimaster · February 20, 2021, 12:53am

LibreOffice is based on Styles. Don’t use the “B” button set up a style to the font and weight you want. MS Office only understands Paragraph Styles but if you just want to embolden some characters use a Character Style that is set the way you want by you.

If this helps then please tick the answer () …and/or show you like it with an uptick (∧)

Hollyberry-1 · March 27, 2021, 9:12am

To be honest I don’t quite understand what you are saying. If you will read my subsequent post you will see the feature operating as it should. Within my text I explain that sometimes it just won’t.
Thanks for your interest and your response

Hollyberry-1 · March 27, 2021, 9:22am

Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by “Styles” but I have posted more for you to see what I want to do and although it is working properly right now I know it will be back where the highlight and embossing do not work properly. Thanks for your interest and your response.

Hollyberry-1 · March 27, 2021, 9:08am

Thank you for those responses. It will be difficult to sanitize the document as its my daily diary. I have kept it going for years and I am now on the 4th section which started 1st Jan this year. I am very familiar with how this feature should and did work.
In the meantime I have re-installed Libre office with the version 7.0.4.2. WIN10 has also been updated BUT it is still the same!
I have some photos BUT the feature is working as it should today. I have had this before It will be back!
This is the first photo which shows some capitals some of which I want to Embolded (Ctrl+B)

I will Highlight them by holding down the LH mouse and pulling the cursor over. OR I might position the cursor and hold down the SHIFT key while back-space or forward space the cursor to get the section highlighted.
I can do two at a time if I hold down the Ctrl key as I highlight.

Then I will press Ctrl+B to get the embossing I wanted. Sometimes it just refuses. At other times I can do only 1 or 2 letters at a time! What a fiddle and I cannot find any way around it. On occasion some letters will be embossed within the highlighted section while some are not!

I hope that makes it clear what is happening. I wondered if the document is corrupt and have tried to make another by copy & paste to NEW. Still the same! Any help would be appreciated. I was hoping others would have reported similar and that its a bug in progress. However that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Rgds & thanks