Hi Hal,
If you want it to look cool, you can add borders to the body and draw
slanting lines between the column headers. See:
www.yorkville.com/transfer/slanted_text.png
<http://www.yorkville.com/transfer/dbxutilities.htm>
and here's the file:
www.yorkville.com/transfer/slanted_text.sxc
<http://www.yorkville.com/transfer/dbxutilities.htm>
tc
Rich wrote:
actually, it's a lot easier to do (and it works in 1.1.4 at least)
insert text for column headers; set rotation to 45 degrees; set
reference edge to 'inside cell'
cell itself won't change the form, but text will overflow current cell
and flow over to the cell at the right; text in that cell will
overflow to the next cell (or cells)
you have to resize columns manually, but since you want to put single
characters in there you can easily select all columns you are
interested in and set arbitrary width
Doug Thompson wrote:
Untested and it may require some fiddling, but have you tried
creating only the column headings in Draw then inserting them above
the data area? You might have better luck making this behave in
Writer and using a table. As long as you aren't using much in the
way of calculations to fill in the check boxes, using Writer+Draw may
quickest get you to where you want to go.
Doug
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I'm still using OOo 1.1.3 (a Debian package). I want to create a
checklist
where I'm listing a number of items down the left side, in one
column, one
item per row. I want to put the titles at the top, across the first
row,
but I want the text at a 45 degree angle. While I know how to do
this, I'd
like the sides of the column to slope with the text. I'm making a
checklist and the list of items down the left will be all the different
parts I'm working on and the row across the top will be a list of
tasks I
have to perform on each section. I want the columns to be narrow,
since
they only have to have room for me to make a checkmark. This means
I want
to fit a full title in the column, but I don't want a wide column --
I want
the column edges to slope at 45 degrees like the text.
I know we've all seen tables like this, I'm just not sure how to
describe
it. Below is an attempt at drawing it, but I know everyone has
different
fonts, so in most cases it'll look like a mess.
Thanks for any help on this!
Hal
Attempted diagram:
/ / / / /
/ / / / /
/ / / / /
----+-+-+-+-+
----+-+-+-+-+
----+-+-+-+-+
----+-+-+-+-+
----+-+-+-+-+
If your font spacing is like mine, you'll have a column on the left for
titles, a grid after that, and at the top, instead of needing wide
columns,
the columns are sloped at an angle so I can write the title in at an
angle.
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