On 28/12/2007 16:24, Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 27/12/2007 19:52, Ariane Fischer wrote:
Hello, I need some help with a specific feature of open office. I am
using word but have a laptop that only has open office. Hence, I
make changes in open office and save them as a word document. Now,
all my footnotes appear automatically indented in the word version of
the text. Since my work is extremely long (dissertation), I don't
want to manually adjust the endnotes. Can you help me find out how
to disable the automatic indent function in open office and or change
the settings in word?
Thanks.
I think that what you need is to change OpenOffice's "style" for
Footnotes and/or Endnotes. In your Writer document, enter one of the
footnotes and do Format>Styles & Formatting (or press F11). Choose
Paragraph Styles from the row of icons at the top of the pane that
opens and then *right* click on the style named Footnote. Choose
Modify and then choose the Indents & Spacing tab. Make the adjustments
you want and click OK. Close the Styles & Formatting pane. All the
footnotes will adjust themselves.
Repeat the process for Endnotes if you need to adjust those too.
You could create a template with the adjusted styles. Opens a blank
document, press F11 and choose Special Styles from the drop-down list
at the bottom of the pane that opens. Now you can choose Footnote and
make the necessary adjustments as above. Adjust Endnote the same way
in the same blank document. Then save the result as a template using
File>Templates>Save and giving the new template a name you'll easily
remember. You can make this template your default template after
saving it: do File>Templates>Organise and then select the template in
question; press the Commands button on the right and select Set as
Default Template.
Now I don't have MS Office installed so I can't test the interaction
of this with Word's view of the world. If Word shows the footnotes as
indented and Writer claims there is no indent then I'd guess Word is
adjusting things as it opens your document and you'll need to teach it
better manners. I'm afraid I think you'll need to consult Microsoft's
support (or a local guru, or Word's inbuilt Help) for details. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242450 for details about searching
Microsoft's "knowledge base" which, surprisingly, is often useful.
Sorry to reply to my own post but ...
I said "If Word shows the footnotes as indented and Writer claims there
is no indent then I'd guess Word is adjusting things as it opens your
document and you'll need to teach it better manners.".
Of course, that's not necessarily true. Instead it could be that Writer
is saving the (Word) document with indent specifications that tell Word
the wrong thing. In which case playing with the Writer settings *might*
cure the problem. It could also be that Writer isn't putting any indent
information into the saved Word document in which case no amount of
fiddling in Writer will work. It seems to me that in either case either
a bug report or changed documentation is called for.
So, please let us know if and how you manage to cure your problem or, if
you can't, what you did and with what results.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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