On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:09, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > In MS Word they have a setting for a hanging indent which can be done > either via the ruler at the top of the page or a dialog. A hanging indent > is where the lines after the firstt are indented by some amount. > > For the life of me I can not find the equivalent in OpenOffice 1.1. I've > been all over the toolbars, dialogs, etc. and can't find it. The ruler has > the triangles for adjusting margins but I can't make it work for the > indents. I know it's something simple I'm missing or doing wrong. Any > help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks.
I am using the evaluation version of StarOffice 7, so I suspect this will work for OpenOffice 1.1 as well. Graphically you can use the adjusting triangles. The top triangle (the first line of your paragraph stays at the margin) and the lower triangle (all lines after the first line) is moved away from the margin to produce your hanging indent. You should be able to select all the paragraphs that you want to make this adjustment for, or, set your first paragraph as described and each new paragraph you type should follow this format. Looking at the Format/Paragraph/Indents&Spacing menu item it is not as obviously apparent. The "Indent Before Text" should be set to whatever hanging indent you want i.e. 0.50". Then the "Indent First Line" is neutralized by using a negative indent i.e. -0.50". There you have it, HTH. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
