Hi All,
libreoffice26.8-writer-26.8.0.3-3.x86_64
I am not a novel writer. I am a technical writer. I write “instructions”. I DESPISE the feature in paragraphs that puts a space between each line that I hit return on thinking it is a new paragraph". How do I permanently activate “Do not add space between paragraphs if the same style” everywhere FOREVER! And please do not tell me to modify the default profile. IT DOES NOT WORK!
Yours in frustration,
-T
you may insert linebreaks shift+return instead return
Thank you for the work around. Do you know of a way to permanently remote the feature?
The normal method is to create a new document with your specific settings, save it as a template and set it as the default template. See Creating and Changing Default and Custom Templates for more details.
If you need specific help, just ask.
new profile has never worked before, but I am ame to try again. And I need to know how to p[reserve the profile between major upgrades (Linux).
Also, I need to know how to remove the featue from existing documents as well.
I guess it always worked, but it does something different:
New profile is “back to factory settings”. If you don’t like the defaults resetting the profile is like the film “groundhog day”…
See the answer by @robleyd on templates.
As you may find in the wiki, the profile is part of your home-folder. Backup this. (Windows is more complicated as MS defaults to have this in a separate hidden folder, unknown to most regular users. The folder .config is also hidden in linux, but actually at the same place as your other files.)
We are talking about a default style, not a profile.
Follow the Modifying a Default Template instructions in the link I gave to edit your default style. when you open the template manager, the current default template will be indicated by a green tick; in my case I have created an additional template to act as default.
Right click on the ticked template to edit it; this will open the normal styles panel and allow you to edit any of the styles in the template.
You want to alter the inter-paragraph spacing; so first edit Default Paragraph Style and set the before and after paragraph spacings, in the Spacing tab, to your preferred value of zero. Note that Default Paragraph Style is the style from which all other styles inherit their values, unless modified in the child style. It should not be used for normal patagraph styling - this is where Body Text is used.
Next, edit Body Text and ensure that paragraph spacing is as required, as the setting there may be changed from the parent style.
Check any other paragraph styles you use or may use, and make any other changes needed. Finally, save the modified template. Note the advice in the link about saving in Template directories - this will place the template in a location that shouldn’t be overwritten by an upgrade to LO. This location should be somewhere in your home directory. or equivalent if you use Windows.
For more information, you might peruse this chapter in the Getting Started Guide.
Again, I think you mean template; if saved in your home directory it can be backed up as part of your normal system backups and restored after a Linux upgrade or re-install.
LibreOffice doesn’t seem to have a way to “apply” a template to an existing document. You could try the Template Changer extension.
Edit; It seems you have asked this question previously - Permanently disable “add space between paragraphs”.
