Andy Pepperdine wrote:
On Friday 16 June 2006 15:05, Immanuel CRC Office wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:19 -0400, Immanuel CRC Office wrote:
I am converting a Word document and have found that OpenOffice.org does
not appear to allow tab stops outside the page margin.
For instance, in Word, I have 0.5" left, and 1.1" right on letter paper.
This gives me about 6.7" of text space. If I make a right tab at 7.28",
the text only goes to the edge of the text space, to 6.7" when I want
the text to go beyond. Is there any way to do this? If I look at the
settings, they do say 7.28" for the tab, but the text doesn't end up
there.
If this is not possible, then is the 'workaround' to set the page
margins bigger and set most lines in further? That's not really a great
solution since it is easier to do extra tab for the lines that want to
go out further.
Thanks for any help to get s workable solution,
Crystle
Crystal,
I think you have two choices.
1. Use a frame
2. Use the Marginalia feature.
(1) is probably the easiest if you do not need to do a lot.
And you could always modify the page style.
The partial problem is transferring this back and forth with Word people
so it needs to be something that is supported in both and easy to use.
Frames and Marginalia both don't seem like they will work.
Any other ideas out there? Anyone know why OOo can't have a tab stop
outside a margin?
Crystle,
Two other ideas.
1. Use a table, with columns at the tab positions
2. Use different paragraph styles for those lines where you want the lines
to be long, and set an indent after text for the other paragraph styles.
It depends very much on what effect you are trying to achieve. What do expect
to happen when you tab to the far position, and just keep on typing
indefinitely? Where would expect the actual edge to be? When would you expect
the next line to be started? Where would you expect the next line to start?
I'm trying to have a bit of text, on the last line of some items, to
extend past all the others on the page, to highlight that text. (minutes
with the name of the person who needs to follow up)
In MS Office the tab stop can be outside the margin, so that is what we
decided to do since it was easiest to do.
I think I'll have to do an RFE to get this evaluated.
Crystle
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