Thank you so much Brian. I am finding that Open Office V3.0.1 has so many improvements and extras that I get to know about through the Users Group. Thank you again. Jean
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>wrote: > At 15:01 12/04/2009 +1000, Jean Lear wrote: > >> I copy some answers I read in the Users Group e mails to an Open Office >> file to have them for future reference. I paste these to the writer file as >> unformatted text and then delete unwanted parts. This pastes the text as >> part lines. I think the file could really be reduced to about half length >> of what it is if I could make the text go right across the page instead of >> staying the line length as it was in the e mail. If I highlighted the text >> Is there something magic hidden in Open Office that I could use to make the >> text full line length. I know I can do it a line at a time but that is time >> consuming. >> > > o Go to Tools | AutoCorrect... | Options. > o Ensure that "Combine single line paragraphs if length greater than 50%" > is ticked. > o (If desired, select that line and click Edit... to change the 50% > value.) > o Select the material that you wish to compress. > o In the Apply Style box in the Formatting toolbar, ensure that Default is > displayed (indicating that the material has the Default paragraph style). > o Go to Format | AutoFormat > | Apply. > > I trust this is sufficiently "magic"! > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > >
