Style from selection

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#1

Hi,
A rather basic question: how do i create a new style from selection (lo 5.2.2.2 x64)? The guide i have says to click the new style from selection icon in the styles and formatting window. Trouble is, i can't seem to find it. I have a new style icon with a dropdown but that doesn't have a from selection option. And it doesn't seem to be an option in the styles menu. I've tried looking for a button in the modify toolbar window, but no joy there either. But it *must* be somewhere?
Thanks,
Gary

#2

Hi Garry,

Here's how I use this facility in LO 5.2.x.x on Windows & Linux x64:

  * Manually format a paragraph with the attributes (eg. font, indents,
    color, bold, italic, etc.) you want the new style to have.
  * Highlight the manually formatted paragraph. (This may not be
    essential, but it's what I choose do.)
  * From the styles menu choose "New Style... Shift F11", or click the
    "New Style" icon on the formatting toolbar (Usually to the left of
    the font selection drop-down list.)
  * In the dialog that opens, give the new style a name and click OK.

Hope this helps.

Dave

#3

Thanks for reply, Dave. I just tried this and it doesn't seem to work for me. A new style with the name is created but it doesn't have the attributes of the selected text, in particular font size, font colour. These attributes were apparently set as direct formatting in the original doc, which i think was got by cut and paste from a pdf original. I now want to convert properly to styles but i don't seem to be able to.
G.

#4

Hi Garry,

So there is something else impacting on the internals of your document.
My guess would be that you have a MS Word formatted document, where the
PDF format has been carried over and embedded into that document. It is
highly unlikely that Writer will be able directly translate that
convoluted structure into one of it's own styles.

Have you tested the method I described with a couple of dummy paragraphs
in a new document? If that works as expected, then your Word document
has the PDF format (probably a text box or frame) embedded in it. The
only solution I have found to overcome this in Writer is to copy and
paste as unformatted text, then format as required. A real pain for a
large document, but it would be almost as problematic in MS Word.

Dave

#5

Update
It is working now. I guess i must have been doing something wrong before, though goodness knows what, it's a simple enough procedure.
Thanks for your help,
G.