At 10:05 18/11/2008 -0500, Helen Etters wrote:
I'm creating a letterhead. I have a horizontal line across the top,
and I'd like a vertical line down the left side, but I find no way
to create a vertical line. I realize I could put the entire writing
space into a frame, and delete the borders on bottom and left, but
that does not suit for other reasons.
How you do this depends on exactly where you want the lines to
appear. Rather than using a frame, you can apply borders - which are
horizontal and vertical lines, of course - to a page (i.e. a page
style), to a paragraph, to a paragraph style, or to a table.
Go to Format | Page... | Borders and set suitable borders at the top
and left of the page. If you need the lines to be set away from the
body of text, reduce the relevant margins on the Page tab and then
increase the corresponding "Spacing to contents" values on the Borders tab.
Alternatively, construct a single-cell table (one column, one row) to
fill the page. Go to Table | Table Properties... (or right-click |
Table...), set the required borders, and again adjust "Spacing to
contents" (along with the page margins) if desired.
You could also apply borders to your paragraphs, but they will grow
as you type your letter, which is probably not what you need.
(As an aside, while trying to do this, I opened Draw, and now cannot
figure out how to get the Draw window to go away. I finally just
left it open and started over creating a
new document.) [...] using Linux, SuSE11
There is no Draw window as such, only a window for your current
document, which happens to be a drawing (Draw) document. You close
that window by closing the document, saving or discarding it as
appropriate. If you have more than one document open in OpenOffice,
you can simply close the window - using the "X" in the corner. This
closes the document but leaves OpenOffice running with the other
documents. If you have only the one document open, there is a second
"X" in the menu bar (just under the other "X"), for which the help
tip is "Close Document". This closes the remaining document but
leaves OpenOffice running for you to open or create other
documents. At least, this is how the Windows implementation
operates; is the Linux one not similar?
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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