Hi. What version of LO do you have. Just as a test, can you click into just 1 line and then add a tab stop to the ruler. Steve
On 08/04/2019 10:37, Carl Paulsen wrote: > On 4/7/19 12:55 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > >> At 20:37 03/04/2019 -0400, Carl Paulsen wrote: >>> I have a number of "paragraphs" of text (job listing section of a >>> resume) for which I'd like to add tab stops. >> >> Are these true paragraphs? I'm not sure why you have given the word >> scare quotes. If they are not true paragraphs, what you with tab >> stops may not behave as you expect. > > > Ummmm. What's the definition of a true paragraph, in particular as > distinct from, say, a line in a bulleted list, and why does that > matter? I simply want to take lines of text and apply some tab stops > to it (the full set of text prior to the next carriage return, whether > a paragraph or lines of bulleted text or whatever). These will be > left justified tab stops. Simple enough I thought. > > >>> I select the lines and click the tab stop I want, then click in the >>> ruler, but nothing happens. >> >> "Lines" are not really a word processing concept, as text reflows >> automatically as you edit it. Tab stops are applied to paragraphs. >> Are you clicking in the *horizontal* ruler, above the text window? >> Incidentally, are you simply missing how tab stops work? They do >> nothing by themselves: you need also to insert tab *characters* (or >> other formatting) into your text to control how the tab stops take >> effect. > > I select the lines of text to which I want to apply the tab stops. I > click on the tab stop box in the upper left of the document to select > which type of tab I want, then click in the horizontal ruler where I > want that tab to go. Nothing happens. No tab stop. I most definitely > MUST be missing how tab stops work, hence why I posted. But in every > other program I've used it works similarly to how I describe. > > >>> I see no menu item to format tabs, though I did stumble into one >>> dialog box with Tabs that required manual setting and it was unclear >>> just where those tabs would be applied. >> >> Tabs are a paragraph property as well as a paragraph style property: >> o For paragraph formatting, go to Format | Paragraph... | Tabs (or >> right-click | Paragraph... | Tabs). >> o For paragraph style formatting, go to Format | Styles and >> Formatting... | right-click style | Modify... | Tabs (or right-click >> | Edit Paragraph Style... | Tabs). > > That's what's odd. In the lines of text I want to apply the tabs, > there is no Tab option in Format | Paragraph. Again, hence my > question. I do wish I could just set tabs in the ruler as at times I > want to apply the tabs, look at the result, and make adjustments. > Requiring manual tab setting makes that process much more cumbersome. > > >>> In the help document >>> (https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Inserting_and_Editing_Tab_Stops) >>> it says for changing one or more paragraphs: "Select the >>> paragraphs, then click inside the ruler." >>> That is most definitely not working. >> So what exactly happens when you try? Do you not see a tab stop in >> the ruler? > > Exactly. > > > Carl > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
