NOF 10 text formatting

[Allison Moore]

I'm migrating our company site to v10. Template from v9 came
in smoothly with very little cleanup necessary. But now, I'm
bolloxed. I can't seem to change paragraph formatting.

Regardless of whether I'm applying local formatting,
redefining a standard site style or creating a custom style,
I can't get Space Above, Space Below or Right Margin value
to stick when I click OK, or to appear in the Edit CSS
window at all, unless I enter a Left Margin value as well.
Once the tag is in the CSS window via the Left Margin value,
I can remove the left margin.

Is this a new "feature"?

Also, has anyone else had trouble retagging paragraphs? In
both v9 and v10, I've been completely unable to assign a new
style for a paragraph once I've entered text and gone on to
another paragraph. Sometimes I can do it with a span, but
even that may not work. And if I delete the previous
paragraph, it retags the paragraph with the previous
paragraph's style. The only way I can reliably do it is to
retype everything in the text box.<grrr>

I don't remember having this problem in earlier versions of
NOF, but at this point I can't go back and check. :-(

Allison

[Waterspider]

"Allison Moore" wrote...
> I'm migrating our company site to v10. Template from v9 came in smoothly
> with very little cleanup necessary. But now, I'm bolloxed. I can't seem to
> change paragraph formatting.
> Regardless of whether I'm applying local formatting, redefining a standard
> site style or creating a custom style, I can't get Space Above, Space
> Below or Right Margin value to stick when I click OK, or to appear in the
> Edit CSS window at all, unless I enter a Left Margin value as well. Once
> the tag is in the CSS window via the Left Margin value, I can remove the
> left margin.
> Also, has anyone else had trouble retagging paragraphs? In both v9 and
> v10, I've been completely unable to assign a new style for a paragraph
> once I've entered text and gone on to another paragraph. Sometimes I can
> do it with a span, but even that may not work. And if I delete the
> previous paragraph, it retags the paragraph with the previous paragraph's
> style. The only way I can reliably do it is to retype everything in the
> text box.<grrr>

Oh yeah, formatting, what a challenge that is <g>
Without even going near CSS, I've struggled with formatting the text box,
the text itself, styles and all the combinations of ways to accomplish this.
Sometimes I'll fluke on the right way to do it, but not often enough to
figure out the correct way to replace previous formatting.

Here's what I do, quick and dirty, but it works.
Enter a Return (Enter) before the text that's giving you a headache, then
type a few meaningless characters (let's say "lsadfk".
Highlight them, hit the Clear (formatting) button, then format them the way
you want them.
Now, put your cursor to the next paragraph (the text that you can't get
formatted properly) and backspace to "lsadfk".
This should apply the fomatting you want to the text you backed up to
"lsadfk" and it will stay in effect after you delete the meaningless
characters.
Try formatting the next paragraph in the usual way.
If it doesn't work, do the backup trick. A pain, but it works.

Hopefully someone else can tell us how to do this properly.

Waterspider

[the other Chuck]

Allison,

Have you applied the available updates to v10 ??

tOC




"Allison Moore" <dumpALLISONlowercase@forgetMETAthisHEALTHand.CO M> wrote in
message news:A921.1177006743.242@gfwebforum.com...
> I'm migrating our company site to v10. Template from v9 came in smoothly
> with very little cleanup necessary. But now, I'm bolloxed. I can't seem to
> change paragraph formatting.
>
> Regardless of whether I'm applying local formatting, redefining a standard
> site style or creating a custom style, I can't get Space Above, Space
> Below or Right Margin value to stick when I click OK, or to appear in the
> Edit CSS window at all, unless I enter a Left Margin value as well. Once
> the tag is in the CSS window via the Left Margin value, I can remove the
> left margin.
>
> Is this a new "feature"?
>
> Also, has anyone else had trouble retagging paragraphs? In both v9 and
> v10, I've been completely unable to assign a new style for a paragraph
> once I've entered text and gone on to another paragraph. Sometimes I can
> do it with a span, but even that may not work. And if I delete the
> previous paragraph, it retags the paragraph with the previous paragraph's
> style. The only way I can reliably do it is to retype everything in the
> text box.<grrr>
>
> I don't remember having this problem in earlier versions of NOF, but at
> this point I can't go back and check. :-(
>
> Allison
>
>
>
>

[Allison Moore]

> Have you applied the available updates to v10 ??

v10 from the CD and update #1 work the same way -- or don't
work, in this case. I haven't tried the pre-release #2, but
the change list didn't show anything that looked related.

Allison

[Allison Moore]

> Here's what I do, quick and dirty, but it works.
> Enter a Return (Enter) before the text that's giving you a headache, then
> type a few meaningless characters (let's say "lsadfk".
> Highlight them, hit the Clear (formatting) button, then format them the way
> you want them.
> Now, put your cursor to the next paragraph (the text that you can't get
> formatted properly) and backspace to "lsadfk".

Thanks! Using your procedure, I got the tags applied to the
bullet list, except where NOF refuses to let me enter a
return at the beginning of an existing list (a situation
that comes and goes). But there are still problems.

1) Clear doesn't work consistently. Sometimes it takes out
the local formatting, the tag assignment and the bullet
icon. Sometimes it doesn't take out anything. And sometimes
it's something in between.

2) See my extended post and screen captures in the CSS
bullets thread.

Arrgh!

Allison