If you click on the paragraph icon, it looks like a large letter "P" with a double-lined stem, it is easy to see what is and what is not considered a paragraph.
Suzanne L. Perry --- On Sat, 4/4/09, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [users] Re: Writer: Highlight row To: users@openoffice.org Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 5:45 AM > Tools>Customise Keyboard. > Now choose Edit in the lower left "Category" pane and "Select Paragraph" in > the lower right "Function" pane. Choose a key in the upper pane and click > Modify. > > Now, assuming each "row" is a separate paragraph and that the cursor is in > the row, pressing the chosen key will select the entire thing. It works in a > bulleted list to select a given bulleted item regardless of where the cursor > is within that item. > I am almost certain that I tried "Select Paragraph" yesterday and it did not select individual rows, however I just tried it now and it does select individual rows! I suppose that I may have had a conflict with another definition as between then and now I erased my ~/.openoffice.org/ directory which was full of old junk. Thanks! > Having read some of the later messages in this thread it's now not clear to > me what you mean by "highlight". One meaning is "select" (in preparation for > cut/copy & paste, say) which is what the above method does. Another (*the* > other ???) meaning is permanently to colour the background of the text in > question as if you had gone over it with a highlighting pen. If that's what > you want then, sorry, I can't help other than to suggest a macro assigned to > a key. The relevant macro would select the entire line and then do > Format>Character>Background>choose your colour. > I was in fact incorrectly using the term "highlight" when I meant "select". In Hebrew we generally use the same word for both, as "select" sounds more like "choose" or "vote" in that language. I apologize for the confusion. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
