On 15-Feb-2005/19:31 -0800, Chris BONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am writing a short play for educational purposes. > >I need to have the player, character, actor's name at the left, with no >writing directly below it. I have used TABS, however, if I change margin >size, add more to the paragraph for the character, the TABs move along as >if they were a character.
The tabs are characters. What you want is a paragraph that has the first line normal and the rest indented. You can tell OOo to do this without using tabs or lists. 1. Type your paragraph normally. Do not use tabs or any indentation. 2. With the cursor within the paragraph, press [F11] to display the Styles dialog. 3. Make sure the "Paragraph Styles" button is pressed (the dialog takes the title of the pressed button) then right-click on the highlighted paragraph style (Default). Select "New". 4. Name the new paragraph style "ActorsLines" or whatever is appropriate for a part of the document that will contain words that the actors will say. 5. Click the "Indents and Spacing" tab. 6. Set the Left (Before Text) indent to 0.5" or 1cm, then set the First Line indent to the same number, but with a negative sign: -0.5" or -1cm. 7. Click OK to save the new style. Apply the style to a paragraph by placing the cursor within the paragraph, pressing [F11] then double-clicking the new style you created. Learn to use styles when creating documents in OOo. It's a lot easier than formatting everything manually. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.greene-family.org/tony/> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
