Bug 51829

Summary: FORMATTING: Edit Paragraph Style fails to update spacing on styled paragraphs
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Damian Walker <bugzilla>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: CLOSED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: cno
Version: 3.5.3 release   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: BSA
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: Paragraphs in first block on left-hand page have been selected and spacing removed with "Paragraph..." option on context menu. The other paragraphs retain the unwanted space between, even after using "Edit paragraph style".

Description Damian Walker 2012-07-07 04:41:27 UTC
Created attachment 63936 [details]
Paragraphs in first block on left-hand page have been selected and spacing removed with "Paragraph..." option on context menu. The other paragraphs retain the unwanted space between, even after using "Edit paragraph style".

Problem description: 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Copy and paste paragraphs from an imported document (e.g. RTF) where paragraph spacing is set to something other than 0.
2. Attempt to remove unwanted spacing by right clicking on one of the paragraphs and clicking Edit Paragraph Style
3. Change the paragraph spacing to 0
4. Click Apply OK.

Current behavior:
Spacing remains between paragraphs.  If you retry as per step 2 above, the paragraph spacing is reported as 0, but there is still space obviously visible between the paragraphs in the document.

Expected behavior:
The spacing should be removed from paragraphs of the selected paragraph's style.  This is what happens if the paragraphs are typed in, rather than copied and pasted from elsewhere.

Platform (if different from the browser): 
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2012-07-07 05:32:27 UTC
Hi Damian,

It works for me.

Either there is direct formatting involved, or there is a different style applied to the other paragraphs.

Direct formatting may be removed as follows:
- select
- choose Format > Clear direct formatting.
I think the problem starts when you write:  opy and paste from another document. It's easier often to use Edit > Paste special > as text only.

I close this issue as invalid.
Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2012-10-22 07:56:08 UTC
& close

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