When highlighting a whole paragraph to apply a new format, the whole document is reformatted. For example, when I try to italicise a given paragraph, every other paragraph is changed as well. It only happens if I try to make the change to the whole paragraph - if I leave only a single letter unhighlighted and then apply the italics/bold/strikethrough/underline, only the highlighted portion of the paragraph is changed, not the whole document. It might be an issue with default style settings, because those paragraphs that I've styled as 'Quotations' are not affected, although those styled 'Footnotes' are - even though, as far as I can see, each of these styles has the same settings in the 'Organizer' tab in their respective 'Paragraph Style' settings. This might be standard but, after the whole document has been reformatted, the newly-applied style also appears in the'Apply Styles' dropdown menu - that is, each entry (apart from 'Quotations') is underlined or italicised etc.
How are you applying the format? If you go through right-click - Edit paragraph style, then it is the correct behavior. Styles are encouraged over direct formatting for any non-temporary documents.
(In reply to Beluga from comment #1) I've only been using keyboard shortcuts and toolbar buttons, and the result is the same for both. I've just noticed something else, though. When I try to format a given paragraph and the whole document changes, it doesn't seem to register as a change - the little icon at the bottom doesn't go from unmodified (green tick/check) to modified (red star) until I press Ctrl+Z to go back to the original formatting. (Again, this only applies when the whole paragraph is selected - if I leave a single letter out, the change only affects the selected text and it registers as a change, giving me a red star at the bottom.) If I try to save the new format when there's no red star, the change doesn't persist; it's not there after I close and re-open the document. I can only save the change (i.e. the reformatted whole document) if I enter another character/space after I un-highlight the original paragraph.
Thanks. I'll set back to unconfirmed and I can't think of anything more.
Do you still have this problem? If so, are you able to attach an ODT document demonstrating the problem? (not a screen capture) Finally, are you still using the same version of LO?
I was trying to reproduce the bug, but I wasn't able to do it with LibreOffice 5.3.3.2.
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