Cautiously Optimistic

[rolanni]

OK. I set up a Whole New Default Style in .ott format edited: .odt, that should be and pasted the manuscript into that style-and-format. There were still a couple of holdout paragraphs that didn't want to embrace Arial, but I was able to insist on the default style. I have closed the file, opened it again, and lo! the formatting is stable. What will happen when I have to convert it into .rtf at the End of It All, God, She Knows. I'm hoping, of course, that stabilizing the file in one format means that it will heretofore remain stable in all formats. I mean, it should work that way, right?

Right.

Thanks to everyone who gave me the benefit of their experience on this.

In other news, unless the sun comes out pretty dern quick, I'm not going anywhere tomorrow.

Keep warm, everybody.