<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - ClearDirectFormatting does not remove page break" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138628#c41">Comment # 41</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - ClearDirectFormatting does not remove page break" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138628">bug 138628</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:octallo@alvarezp.org" title="Octavio Alvarez <octallo@alvarezp.org>"> Octavio Alvarez</a> <pre>(In reply to TorrAB from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=138628#c40">comment #40</a>) > > The most natural and fastest way to clear ad hoc formatting from a WRITER > > file SHOULD be to select ALL and apply "Clear direct formatting". > > **Why would one do DF here and there throughout a (large) document, and > suddenly decide to remove it all? More likely, "Clear direct formatting" > will be applied punctually, one parag at-a-time. Not at all; I do it all the time for different reasons even for large documents. Examples: 1. Pasted documents from the Internet or imported from other documents will require cleaning. "Clear All Formatting" and "Paste Unformatted" may not be desirable when copying large portions if the formatting is decently applied. Also, existing formatting may be used as visual guides to reapply styles. A full clean up may be needed afterwards. 2. After applying a set of direct formats a formatting pattern may come up which will lead to the creation of a Style. Once the Style is created and applied, Direct Format should be removed to avoid formatting surprises. Character styles can become the most confusing but the most useful sometimes. 3. The user may lose track of direct formatting. Maybe the file was reverted to a saved version or format paintbrush was used throughout the document. A quick clean can be done by issuing "Clear Direct Formatting" to the whole document. 4. If I know that I am keeping the document DF-clean, then it is just way easier and faster to do Ctrl+A, Ctrl+M and going to specific paragraphs to clean DF. In "surprises" and "losing track" I am including what I have called "hidden Direct Formatting" in the past. Hitting Bold twice does *not* remove direct-format-bold; it instead sets the text as direct-format-regular. So, yes, this is why cleaning the whole document from DF is sometimes necessary. To keep it on-topic: it would certainly be a bit confusing if I suddenly lose manually inserted page breaks when doing a document-wide "Clear DF" if I did it using Insert > Break or Ctrl+Enter.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>