My preferred way to insert horizontal lines is to insert a right tab after the explanatory text, format the tab with a bottom border, and move it to the place I want the line to end. The tab position and formatting hold for subsequent paragraphs, so you can make as many new lines as you need. When you need to change the tab position, you can do so freely. You also can insert as many right tabs on a line as you need.
I haven't tested it, but I believe tab formatting and position is preserved when exporting to word. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:27 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" <jerry...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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<- > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted