How about simply using the underline-key to make each line?;
well, that's how I make lines ;-)
From: "J. Van Brimmer" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Making horizontal lines in Writer
To: libreoffice <[email protected]>
Thanks Cley,
I didn't think about the pdf route. That just may well work. I did try
sending an .odt to the secretary, same peoblem. When she opened it, some of
the lines were missing. I'll try pdfs next.
Thanks!
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cley Faye <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know how well it transition to .doc files, but my approach to make
> answer lines is the following:
> - create a new paragraph style (let's call it "Answer Zone")
> - change the style spacing so that there is no extra space before/after
the
> paragraph
> - change the style border to be a single line at the bottom, and disable
> the checkbox that merge the borders between paragraphs
>
> ...after typing this, I just checked, and that's roughly what the "---\r"
> route is doing. Damn. The issues seems to be that the "Merge with next
> paragraph" option either doesn't exist in .doc format, or isn't carried
> over correctly. And no more luck with docx.
>
> Some sort of solution for your issue could be to just send the odt (recent
> version of MS Office can read them, YMMV), or directly send the PDF, which
> is clearly the best option if the recipient of your document will not have
> to modify it, only to view/print it.
>
> --
> Cley Faye
> http://cleyfaye.net
>
> 2014-09-24 0:27 GMT+02:00 "J. Van Brimmer" <[email protected]>:
>
> > I'm using 4.3.1.2 on Xubuntu Linux.
> >
> > I am creating some lesson handouts for a class I'm going to be teaching.
> I
> > have to email them to our secretary, who has to read them in MS Office
> for
> > printing.
> >
> > The documents are formatted in landscape mode.
> >
> > In the document I enter a short text line, press Enter, then I type in
> > three dashes, press Enter, and waula, I have a horizontal line for the
> > students to write their answers on.
> > Sometimes I continue pressing Enter to automatically create as many
> lines
> > as I need.
> >
> > This works fine as ling as I stay in .odt format. But if I save the
> > document in .doc format, and then open the .doc file in LibreOffice,
some
> > of the horizontal lines are missing. I have tried everything I can think
> > of, but I can't get all of the lines to "stick" from .odt to .doc
format.
> >
> > I have read the "Help" page here:
> > https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Drawing_Lines_in_Text
> > .
> > But those tips don't work either.
> >
> > I am being forced to work in Winbroke using BS Word. Help!
> >
> > --
> > ->Jerry<-
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