-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alternately, you could FORMAT PARAGRAPH and set the spacing you want between paragraphs. Then, any time you RETURN it will set your paragraph spacing.
Merry Christmas, Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA On 12/25/2014 03:35 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 17:10 25/12/2014 -0500, Julian Thomas wrote: >> I created a document and pasted a number of entries in; >> separating them by a line like this: -------- Sometimes this >> works OK and sometimes it converts to a thin line that goes from >> margin to margin > > Interestingly, if your hyphens are genuinely a *line* - i.e. > preceded by a line break created by Shift+Enter - then you will get > what you want with no correction. What you see happens only if it > is entered as a separate paragraph - preceded and followed by > paragraph breaks created by Enter. > >> it looks like format paragraph - borders ... > > It does because it is. > >> ... but if I select all and set the border to no thickness and >> apply, they don't go away, and borders are still on the next time >> I go to format paragraph. It's very difficult to get rid of the >> lines. > > Close - but no cigar. The automatic correction merges the line of > hyphens (or some other things) with the preceding paragraph as a > bottom border. If you Select All, as you describe, you apparently > cannot clear this. But if you put the cursor into the preceding > paragraph - the one that now has the bottom border - you can easily > remove just its border in exactly the way you describe. > >> How do I keep this from happening in the first place? > > One thing you should consider is leaving this facility available > and merely correcting it when it occurs. The automatic correction > is a separate process from the paragraph break that you want and > produce by pressing Enter after your line of hyphens. All you need > to do immediately you see the unwanted change is to use Edit | Undo > (or Ctrl+Z): this will remove the correction and keep the paragraph > break. > > If you really do want to disable this facility completely, remove > the tick from Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Apply > border. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUnL44AAoJECEnuKHtF9C+w1QQAKXTjMSNvxyuiZYe7FYXN36/ NUMMslC7GAVETds+1xu7fdORoSzfXW9vNDsonWVmn/6uUYLE/tRCO0Cf3xZx1r83 2+FzdEeAbXHxchKWFNR7IVmbllrrcccXi4hBLu3hPEoVbiV7j8hzj8khX0rXXHo/ YHnMVSHQmKIJj93ft5Mwt5yJeFU301ZU8ujeg5q7Sm1fQHl6fRgFI9vZZ2M5VNhW IQXK2YRxHAVJZKnpceEI6l/shGb8fFVl1fH6aZ0Q9IIBeErQ4wYHecveopBZlsmD Q4xk2dEkzWNdRrkkbbgySdrTiMtl+ZzreyJpOsxLGxl6LsO5kz0gHHKcpDJf0Qfh EEKzZdqQWpxlmctge1PZpToISbE81trTSEPX4YRkEo1711wBRyy6LURZPNengQcq DBqoLiYZpiD+ypGIQi3CbDMr4v0RMTcEAOTYx/pWn6zKNWY+fo55F4Frz57kGcsD ns/LpYUAhxEqTDfcs9lbpAiEai5OTaW8JvxuLVKCx+OLEuwU9Nu7L9fGH6XMKKOV C8iFnHOL9xjCqN9P61JHwv9Yk02CpRzxv+owyofkz7xVlcAIpWunEPoMVq5OzXh9 ViMCS/Tpls1mKWkISMKT1vXnwhdvp40OS90EFulA50rWZRZQdXOGg69x8vp5i4Fr /NwSsZLqc5+vv+Ko0Sy5 =a00o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
