On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 09:53 +1300, Ian Laurenson wrote:
> The original poster was looking for the functionality of the equivalent
> to Ctrl+T in Microsoft Word in Writer. The idea is that at each press of
> Ctrl+T the left indent of every line in the paragraph except the first
> line indents to the next tab stop. (Ctrl+Shift+T does the reverse).
> 
> The macro suggested at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
> does just that (it also implements something similar to the F4
> functionality in Word Perfect for indents).
> 
> There has been some discussion about using styles to perform the same
> task. With a style you can set a specified size of hanging indent for
> the style. For a large document this definitely the best course of
> action. However, in a small document sometimes all you want is a "quick
> and dirty" approach to get a hanging indent of the desired size. Thus
> the macro to implement the equivalent to Microsoft Word's Ctrl+T.
> 
> The question becomes should this functionality become standard in
> OpenOffice.org?

Why not try and please both sides here? Correct me if I am wrong,
but couldn't we simply have a standard "indented paragraph" style
in the default styles and then simply use the new 2.x features to
create a shortcut (eg Crtl-T) for applying the style?

Regards
Jonathon
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