On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 13:45 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 00:32 +0000, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > Rick Bilonick wrote: > > > Is there any way in OOo to create a "block of text"? I want the text to > > > be treated like it was a paragraph, sort of. I don't want it to split > > > across pages. I guess I could put it into a single table cell and not > > > show the borders but maybe there is a simpler way to do this. > > > > > > Rick B. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > Select the paragraph and then I think that Format>Paragraph>Text Flow > > and then check "Do not split paragraph" is what you need. > > Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. The text that I want to treat as a > "block" includes more than one paragraph. For example, I have > programming code pasted from somewhere else. Each line is a new > paragraph. I can format each line to "keep with the next paragraph," but > this does not work well (if only because the "keep with next paragraph" > seems to get turned off when the text moves. > > The only way I can see doing this is to use a 1x1 table. I also would > love to know how to keep text together (e.g., PM2.5 where the 2.5 is a > subscript) and not break at the end of a line into PM on one line and > 2.5 on the next or some other variant. > > Rick B.
Have you tried to simply create a new "Section" for the text you want to treat as a "block". If that still doesn't do what you want you could create a new style with the "Keep with Next Paragraph" checkbox enabled (along with all the other paragraph properties you need). Good Luck, Mike Petersen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
