When I paste certain text, it appears with a dotted line underneath. I tried removing this with the “underline” feature, but it appears to be separate from that.
How do I remove this?
Did you look for paragraph borders?
The paragraph borders are borders for whole paragraphs. The dotted lines I’m trying to remove are under each line of text.
Attach an example file containing text showing the issue.
This is not an example file but an image.
It gives no additional information.
Among your character direct formatting, you have added a character (not paragraph) dotted bottom border.
To remove direct formatting, select the sequence you want to fix and Format>Clear direct formatting or Ctrl+M.
To avoid hard-to-deal-with problems, drop direct formatting and learn to work with styles.
I never even had noticed this character attribute not to speak of “using” it. It still isn’t supported by AOO. Do you know for what reason it was introduced?
The OQer hadn’t formatted that piece of text himself, but pasted a copy.
I use it for very special effects like “boxing” a character in the middle of a paragraph.
I have no idea about the reason. From my point of view, it seems logical to keep regularity in the Writer box model. Boxes are present everywhere: usable page area is itself a box within the sheet with margins, border, padding and contents; the same goes for a paragraph; and again for the smallest “box”, i.e. a character.
Thanks. You are an expert, and I’m just an “occasional user” of Writer.
Feature introduced with LibreOffice 4.2 (cf. Release Notes). The discussion in tdf#35155 appears to sheds some light on the reason for its introduction.
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From my point of view, it brings regularity and uniformity in the box model for page, paragraph, character and frame. There are still a few remaining bugs but it is usable and solves elegantly some layout designs.
Unfortunately, the feature is not as regular as it could be. A paragraph style defines a “companion” character style to be applied by default when the paragraph style is active. Character borders can’t be defined in this companion style, requiring the use of a separate character style.
For example, the following heading formatting (top and bottom borders)
cannot be done by configuring only the paragraph style because the Borders tab provides only paragraph borders. There is no Borders tab for the “companion” character style.
If such borders are set in the paragraph style, top and bottom lines extend from margin to margin. By configuring the same borders in the character style, the lines will only surround existing text. Empty space is neither overlined nor underlined. I find the result nicer than with full width lines.
This is perhaps worth an enhancement request to make the “companion” character style a full-fledged character style, eliminating the need to apply a separate char style.