Since just a few months ago (I believe), it seems that even making a minor edit in Writer carries along a formatting definition.
For example, say I have an entire document in which every paragraph is in a ‘Basic’ paragraph style that uses the Cambria typeface. I save that document and leave it alone for a while. Later, I go in and change the word ‘aardvark’ to ‘rhinoceros’. I save it again. Later, I open the document, select the entire text and paste it into a new template in which the styles have the same names, but different definitions - for example, the ‘Basic’ style uses the Bookman typeface.*
Everything works fine - the style adapts as it should - except for the altered word. In my example, ‘rhinoceros’ is still in Cambria typeface even though the standard is now Bookman - essentially, that one edited word comes with its own style definition. This is most obvious when converting to html - the result shows that there’s special formatting for that one word.
My questions:
- Why does this happen? I’m just adding a word in an already formatted paragraph. I’m no applying any formatting by hand at all.
- How can I stop it? At present, I’m reduced to searching the document for ‘Cambria’ and removing the invisible formatting. Interestingly, Write does find these, even though the entire document is in Cambria.
* This template switching technique is useful for submitting documents that need special formats. So long as the style names are all the same, the entire document can be reformatted with just one cut and paste.
(formatting edited by ajlittoz)