Michael Scheff wrote:
Open Office Writer has imitated some of the worst features of Microsoft Word '97 formatting. Two examples:1. Location of Page Numbers. After trying just about everything I could think of, I still found it impossible to put page numbers in the upper right corner of a document. The program's default is page numbers in the lower right corner, with no simple choice available for upper right corner page numbering. Yet novels, screenplays, journals, etc., require the page number to be in the upper right hand corner of the page. Selecting the location of page numbering should be simple and transparent For instance, Under the heading, Page Numbering, there should be a list of choices as to where the user would like the page number to be. Simple. (BTW. I still don't know how to put page numbers in the upper right corner of the page.) .
It sounds as if you're inserting the Page Number field into the footer, accepting the default positioning of where the cursor appears in a new footer. To get the page number in the top right, you need to use a header instead of a footer, and specify right-justify (for instance, in the Formatting toolbar) either before doing the insertion or while the field is selected. Is there a heading called Page Numbering somewhere that you're referring to, or are you saying there should be one (and if so, where)?
2. Automatic Paragraph Numbering.
The default for automatic paragraph numbering is single spacing. The result
might look like this.
1. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
2. More blah, more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah,
more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah.
But suppose you want a double space between paragraphs so the result might look
like this:
1. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
2. More blah, more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah,
more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah, more blah.
Well, just try and figure out how to accomplish that double space between
automatic numbered paragraphs. It is extremely difficult to accomplish and not
intuitive at all. (I still haven't figured out how to do this either!)
I feel that one of the goals for Open Office Writer is not to copy the horrors
of Microsoft Word, but to create a much simpler and more intuitive interface
for the user. These are just two examples. I'm sure each of you can supply
more. BTW. If anyone knows how to accomplish the above two items, please shoot
me an email. If not, just shoot me.
In OOo, everything like this is done through use of styles. In this case, what you're trying to do can be accomplished by either creating your own style based on the automatic one, or modifying the automatic one, if you want to do this consistently. For occasional use, you can right-click on the paragraph in the list, choose Paragraph, then adjust the Spacing - Above paragraph value. This gives you much more control than simply choosing between single and double spacing.
I think what you're running into here is that OOo is far more oriented towards use of styles (at character, paragraph, and page levels) than Word is. Once you get used to that, actions of this kind become very predictable. You might want to read up on styles in the Writer guide, wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide
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