Chris BONDE wrote:
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
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I did this, it worked great on my second document. I even highlighted all para and
F11, then double clicked on ActorsLines, fantastic.
Went to the first one document that I had done with TABS to change it. Could not
find the ActorsLines styles, yes, Para was highlighted. Went back to the second, it
was available F11.
Saved both, as I thought that the STYLE might not be available until it was saved
with the document creating document and that the next document had to be opened
when available.
To my chagrin, no STYLE in either of the document, and other formating was lost.
I think that what happened is this, part of the documents were scanned, saved as
MS.doc, worked on as .doc then saved as doc. as need to pass such a file onto
someone else. Were most of the formatting rules lost? If so I guess I have to save
in OOo format. If not why and how do I overcome?
Chris
It occurs to me that you can format your
paragraphs such that you on the Indents and Spacing tab you set the
first line to -1 (choose your own minus value) and that will wrap the
text to the page position you choose. Begin the text position with a
tab.
Chris, I have attached a small example. It will be stripped off the
user's list but should come to you directly.
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