Tony: Thank you. I am trying to learn the Styles but when reading the manual with Adobe, and trying to follow by doing I receive a crash!!
The thing that I did not realize was that the first line has to be a negative number the same value as the other. I put the first line at zero, then indented the other lines, No workee. Chris > On 15-Feb-2005/19:31 -0800, Chris BONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am writing a short play for educational purposes. > > > >I need to have the player, character, actor's name at the left, with > >no writing directly below it. I have used TABS, however, if I change > >margin size, add more to the paragraph for the character, the TABs > >move along as if they were a character. > > The tabs are characters. > > What you want is a paragraph that has the first line normal and the > rest indented. You can tell OOo to do this without using tabs or > lists. > > 1. Type your paragraph normally. Do not use tabs or any indentation. > > 2. With the cursor within the paragraph, press [F11] to display the > Styles dialog. > > 3. Make sure the "Paragraph Styles" button is pressed (the dialog > takes > the title of the pressed button) then right-click on the highlighted > paragraph style (Default). Select "New". > > 4. Name the new paragraph style "ActorsLines" or whatever is > appropriate > for a part of the document that will contain words that the actors > will say. > > 5. Click the "Indents and Spacing" tab. > > 6. Set the Left (Before Text) indent to 0.5" or 1cm, then set the > First > Line indent to the same number, but with a negative sign: -0.5" or > -1cm. > > 7. Click OK to save the new style. > > Apply the style to a paragraph by placing the cursor within the > paragraph, pressing [F11] then double-clicking the new style you > created. > > Learn to use styles when creating documents in OOo. It's a lot easier > than formatting everything manually. > > > Tony > -- > Anthony E. Greene > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: > <http://www.greene-family.org/tony/> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D > 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Linux. The choice of a GNU > generation <http://www.linux.org/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2005-02-14 > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2005-02-14 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
