When I set bold, font size , centering etc, and save it, then close and re-open the .odt document, some, but not all formatting goes away: bold, centering, font size etc. Using 7.4.7.2(x64)
sample text test in LibreOffice.odt (17.6 KB)
Paradise Valley Railroad Project List-July 20-2023.odt (40.6 KB)
Happened again just now in the second upload. I bolded a title lower in the document, and the upper bolding, size change , centering was gone.
That should never happen in a file really saved in the odt format. So, do you really save in that format, or do you save as text, and add the odt extension? The best way for us to help you solve this is that you upload a sample file - just some random text. You can upload a file by clicking the arrow-up icon at the top of the edit panel, 7th button from the left.
Your file looks perfectly fine to me. All formatting is present.
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Second file uploaded after problem recurred
Paradise Valley Railroad Project List-July 20-2023.odt (40.6 KB)
I can’t tell for sure but your files are overcrowded with direct formatting. Anything in your table is paragraph-styled Table Contents over which you add “variations” (bold, colour, size, …) with direct formatting. In principle, direct formatting survives session and even overrides paragraph/character styles.
However the Style inspector (in the right side pane) reports something weird: this direct formatting operates on “character” properties and is described as paragragh DF instead of character DF.
What is the editing history of your document? You didn’t mention your OS name. Has it ever been edited with another application than Writer? (I don’t mean Word because I’d have found fossils of its specific way of annotating files)
Thanks. OS = Windows 11 22621.1992. Document created by me in Writer, I don’t use Word anymore. Based on your comment I’m going to define some headings and quit using direct formatting so much