I played a little with tabs a minute ago and I found a somewhat strange
thing (I use 1.1.5 so maybe this is corrected in 2.0.1).
Here's what I did:
01. New document.
02. Set one or more tabs by clicking in the horisontal ruler.
03. Go to next line by pressing Enter.
04. Change, add and remove some tabs by clicking in the horisontal ruler.
05. Repeat steps 03-04 a couple of time.
06. Ctrl-A (select all).
07. Format -> Paragraph -> Tabs -> Erase all (or something like that; I
use 1.1.5, Swedish version)
08. Exit by clicking OK.
09. Check the tabs for each line. They are still there! Erase All didn't
work.
10. Repeat steps 06-07.
11. Set a tab by entering a number in the Position field, then click New.
12. Click OK to exit.
13. Check the tabs for each line. Now they are set to the position you
entered in step 11. All the other tabs are now erased.
14. Repeat steps 06-08. Now, finally, all tabs are erased...
I also tried this:
01. New document.
02. Set one or more tabs by clicking in the horisontal ruler.
03. Go to next line by pressing Enter.
04. Change, add and remove some tabs by clicking in the horisontal ruler.
05. Repeat steps 03-04 a couple of time.
06. Ctrl-A (select all).
07. Set only one tab by clicking in the horisontal ruler.
08. Remove it again.
09. Check the tabs for each line. They are now erased.
10. Repeat steps 01-07.
11. Check the tabs for each line. You'll find one tab on each line, just
where you set it in step 07.
So the answer to your question "So how can I set fixed tabs for existing
text?" is:
Just highlight all the text for which you want to set tabs, then just set
them. All the tabs that previously were there will just disappear... at
least in OOo 1.1.5.
I can't try this witb 2.0.1 since I uninstalled it. My PC was way to slow
for it and it was totally unusable for me, unfortunately. Something like
90% (wild guess) of the time was spent waiting for something to happen and
I realized that it would shorten my life with a couple of decades (being
angry all the time probably shortens your life, I think) if I continued to
use it on my PC.
I have a Dell Dimension XPS R450, 256 MB SDRAM, with Windows 98 First
Edition. I tried Windows XP once but that was also too slow for me: Almost
half a minute to open a folder first time after startup, not making me
very happy...
I will probably try 2.0 again on my next PC, but by that time it will
probably be 3.0 rather than 2.0... ;)
Johnny
Den 2006-01-16 02:43:54 skrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
It sounds like the use of paragraph styles would help significantly in
what
you're trying to do. If you're not familiar with styles, take a look at
the
users guide for OOo 2.0, which you can find at
_http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html_
(http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html) The section
on styles starts on page 65.
In a message dated 1/15/2006 8:31:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi again,
I'll be wearing out my welcome, but here I go
again. I was presented with a 17 page list of
names and relevant page numbers. This was
created: sometimes using spaces, sometimes
default tabs and sometimes user defined tabs.
The whole looks like a dogs breakfast and
foolishly I volunteered to tidy things up.
My approach was to use just 3 tabs, the last a
right tab for the numbers and shift things into
place by removing multiple spaces a.s.o.
But I couldn't set the tabs! If I highlight the
text I can't set tabs, if I select one single line
at a time I can set tabs, but as soon as I go
to the next line I have to set tabs over and
over again.
So how can I set fixed tabs for existing text?
A solution really would restore my faith
in O O.
Max.
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