Thanks for sharing these procedures, Dan. I appreciate it. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bottom post: > > On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 19:24 -0400, Jonathon Waterman wrote: > > You won't be the only one. Thanks for the quick reply Jean-Francois. > > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker < > > jean-francois.nifenec...@laposte.net> wrote: > > > > > Le 17/03/2012 21:50, Jonathon Waterman a écrit : > > > > > > Last night I downloaded and installed LO 3.5.1 and soon discovered > that > > >> unlike 3.4.5 - in writer, there is no boundary line around the area > where > > >> you type. There seems to be only an L shaped mark at each page corner. > > >> > > >> Is there a way to get the text boundary line back? > > >> > > >> > > > No. In this branch (v.5.x), it is like that. A fix is already in place > in > > > the v.6.x branch under development. There, the textboundary is > > > [de]activated with the non-printable characters display setting which > seems > > > fine to me. > > > > > > I'm looking forward to getting v6 :) > > > -- > > > Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux > > If you want this border and don't want to wait, try these steps > after > opening an new Writer document: > > 1) Open the Styles and Formatting window using the F11 key. > 2) Click the Page Styles icon (should be fourth icon from the left) to > get the > list of Page styles. > 3) Right click Default in that list and select New from the context > menu. > 4) Enter a name for the new page style. (I used 'My Default Page > style'.) > 5) Click the Borders tab (yours probably reads Bourders). > 6) In the Line arraignment section click the second icon from the left > under > the Default. This should create a four-sided border. Select the > Color: > suggestion, gray 10% in the drop-down Color list. > 7) Click OK. > 8) Double click the name of your new page style to apply it to the > page. > 9) Click the Save icon. > 10) Name the document. (I used 'My Default template'.) > 11) Change the File type to 'ODF Text Document Template (.ott)' > 12) Save the file in the Documents folder. > 13) File > Templates > Organize (This opens the Templates Managememt > dialog.) > 14) Right click 'My Templates' in the list on the left. > 15) Select 'Import templates'. > 16) Browse to your template in the Documents folder, click it to > highlight it, > and click Open. (The 'My Templates' has opened and your template is > listed > in it. > 17) Right click your template and select 'Set As Default Template', and > click Close. > Seems like quite a few steps, but now every time you open a new > text document, you will have the border you want. > How do you remove this border when you have created your > document? Two choices: double click Default in the list of Page styles, > or Right click Your page style, select Modify, click the Bourders tab, > click the left icon below Default to remove all of the bourders. Click > OK. > > Perhaps this will help. > --Dan > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
