

When I copy just the important part to a new document, I lose the styles from the old document. It's part of a large novel (377 pages) which I do not want to allow everyone to download (no offense to anyone).

When the material in question is well inside the document, I always have a problem. That's possible because in this case the material is right up front. If you need I can upload the part of the actual document. There has to be a solution, as I can't believe anyone would want the choice of either no spacing or too much spacing. I tried selecting everything from the end of the preceding paragraph through to the 1st word of the 2nd paragraph, and changing the font size, but nothing changed. I would happily use a slightly smaller bullet if that would help, but I know of no way to scale it as he suggests. Turn on the bullets (click the toolbar button once) I have followed all of acknak's advice. Turn off the bullets (click the toolbar button, maybe twice, until the bullets are off) Here's the best approach I know of to cleaning up list formatting: A bullet can also be scaled, so its size may simply be larger than the text line height.

OO Writer often uses a different font for the bullet symbol and the symbol font is slightly larger than the text font and thus changes the line spacing. ) it can be difficult to straighten out.Īt any rate, the usual culprit with uneven spacing in bullet lists comes from the bullet symbols. Once you start using direct formatting (toolbars, Format > Paragraph >. The best way to get consistent, manageable formatting in OO is to use styles exclusively.
