On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:37:55 -0700 "Nancy" <nancy.bh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - I'm a retired legal secretary (lots of Word Perfect knowledge) and our > new CPU with Windows 7 would not run my older Word Perfect Ver.8, so I > downloaded your Open Office 3.0 and 3.4 (I think the last version is). I'm > very happy with the product you have put together so far (I've used it a LOT > over the last 6-8 months) - but I have run into a snag on fixing some tab > stops in a document I've been adding to since February - an 8 page long, 4 > column list of Zentangle pattern names with the page # they can be found in > my 2 Moleskin Notebooks - so basically lots of pattern names, followed by a > page # (or 2 or 3) > > > > I find the default is a tab every 1/2" or so in the 4 columns I've set up, > but I don't like that, and want one tab at the righthand end of the column > to be a right aligned tab. I can change the tabs individually for each > entry/"Zentangle name/page#" - but with 8 pages of these with 4 columns each > to do (over 1,350 patterns), I would like a 'faster' method.. and I can't > find the answer I need in your help menus or write ups about changing > tabs/deleting tabs, etc. > > > > Can you help me out on this problem? (is there an 'easy button' for this > task? lol) I would appreciate your help greatly! You need to learn how to use Styles - OpenOffice formatting hinges on these. You should read up what the Help file says about Styles; you might also find this reference of use http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/5/52/0206WG33-IntroductionToStyles.pdf and its following chapter. It might be best if you bring this problem to the User Forum at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ particularly as there you can post your sample file, whereas this list does not permit attachments. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
