On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 17:13 -0500, my wrote: > Dear Friends, > I apologise for the need for fast help, but kid needs homework done for > tomorrow and I have no clue how to do this, although I am sure googling > would, had I the time, do it. > > He needs two colums, one called "What I Read" and the other half of the > page "What I thought." > > Obviously, he needs to be able to(meaning me, secretary, of course) to > write the first thing on the left hand side of the page, the start over > and answer the questions on the right hand side, and print it out. > > Since I cannot write html here, I can only hope this approximates what I > need: > > thing 1 thing 2 > blah blah blac yackyack yack > blah blah yack yack yack > > > The problem is that trying to finish the text is column a then reset the > margins does not preserve column A, but moves the text. I can tab it, as > that would involved knowing the contents of column b. > > How would on set up such a thing?
In writer user a 2 column table. Insert > Table or Ctrl+F12 opens the dialogue and you can set the number of rows. The cell will expand and contract to suit the text entered. Play with the borders too. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
