How to make character formatting do characters, not words

[gisborne]

It drives me batty because of the way I use keyboard shortcuts that the keyboards shortcuts for character formatting -- bold, italic -- apply to an entire word rather than the current character.

In case you care, I *want* to do this to italicise a word as I type it: Cmd-I word Cmd-I space. But since Cmd-I applies to the whole word, the second Cmd-I *un*italicizes the word.

Drives me batty. Can't find a way to turn it off -- looked through prefs, the help, searched the forums, tried google...

It's either not there, or hidden in a way that the developers at microshaft would be proud of.

Please help, if you can.

[aussie149]

Hi and Welcome. I think you'll find that people ar every helpful here. I'm not sure what you mean. You can turn italics and bold etc off just as you would in Word or TextEdit or whatever. Do you mean word?
You would do Cmd-I wo Cmd-I rd. Are you pressing the space bar? Why?

Peter

[yoxi]

What version of NeoOffice are you using (including patch number) on what version of OSX? Typing using cmd-I to toggle italics on/off at character level works fine for me in v2.0 Aqua Beta 3 patch #14.

Even if you're using an up-to-date version, occasionally, corrupted preferences can cause weird behaviour too, so you might try quitting NeoOffice, temporarily moving your ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.x folder (if you're using v2.x) to your desktop, relaunching NeoOffice (which will create a fresh set of preferences) and seeing if your italics behaviour is now as it should be. Let us know what happens...

- padmavyuha

[RoyFocker]

if you put the cursor on a word and press cmd-i will put in italic all the word. If you want to do that only for a character on a word, select the character and cmd-i...

If you are using NeoOffice on another language the keyboard shortcut may change (in spanish is cmd-k)

Hoping that it can help!
Rodrigo

[Fredrik Stendahl]

I see what you want to do. As you are typing along you want to type the specific 'upcoming' word in italics directly, not having to edit the word after the sentence has been completed.

Now I tried to do this myself. Typing words in standard formatting, pressing command-I as I start typing the word that is to be in italics, again pressing command-I to end the italics and continue to type the following words in standard formatting. It works as expected - It first turns italics on and the second off at the insertion point. At the second command-I press the word in itallics is still in italics.

This is where the behaviour you are describing is not the same as the one I have. In your case, at the second command-I press the word just typed in italics is changed to plain text. This is odd. I have no explanation.

My setup: Aqua beta 3 patch 14. Tiger 10.4.8, PPC PowerMac G4, using java 1.5.0-0.7. Swedish locale, both computer and Neo. Auto-text in Neo turned off.

I hope someone else has better insights in what is causing your problem.

[Fredrik Stendahl]

Sorry to correct myself.

In my setup spec: The auto text in Neo is actually on, not off - not that I think this really has any bearing on the problem.

F

[Samwise]

Just a thought : have you tried Cmd-I word space Cmd-I ?

[gisborne]

I am using b3 Patch 14.

More specifics about the behavior: if I am inserting text in front of a space, it works fine. Cmd-IwordCmd-I gives me word in italics.

But if I'm trying to insert a word and a space in front of a non-space character, then the second Cmd-I turns italics off for the whole word.

First: in what world does that behavior make sense?

Second: I'd like to be able to turn this behavior off. If I want to apply character formatting to multiple characters, let me select them first. With nothing selected, character formatting should apply to the next character I type.

Any ideas? Feature request?

[sardisson]