Sorry: something - possibly a bullet character - truncated the first
version of this. Here (I hope) is a cleaned-up version.
At 23:13 16/12/2008 -0500, Helen Etters wrote:
The question: How, in OO writer, do I turn off automatic formatting?
The answer I've seen: Turn off the *Format->AutoFormat->While Typing*.
That's a good start.
... and turn off *Tools->AutoCorrect*.
That's not a single option, of course, but many.
I've done this. But OO continues to try to format for me. It
thinks I am writing an outline when I am not.
Sorry, but I don't understand exactly what you mean here.
Or it thinks I am wanting a bulleted list when I do not.
If you start a line with a hyphen, a plus sign, or an asterisk,
followed by a space, a bulleted list is created when you press Enter
at the end of that paragraph. But that doesn't happen if you have
turned off Format | AutoFormat > | While Typing. Note that if you
already have a bulleted or numbered list and type Enter to create a
new paragraph within it or at its end, then Writer will add a new
item to your list even if you have While Typing disabled. You'd want
that - right?
If you want to leave AutoCorrect on for some things but to disable
the creation of bulleted and numbered lists, change the options Tools
| AutoCorrect... | Options | Apply numbering - symbol: * and Tools |
AutoCorrect... | Options | Replace bullets with: *.
One useful thing to remember is that when you type something and see
an automatic correction, Writer has done two things: the change you
want followed by the correction you don't. Since it sees these as
two separate operations, you can easily undo the correction but keep
what you do want by immediately using Edit | Undo (or Ctrl+Z).
It insists on indenting a paragraph, and I cannot convince OO that I
do not want this paragraph indented.
If you press Enter to create a new paragraph, Writer assumes that you
want the new paragraph to inherit the style of the previous
one. That's not unreasonable: it has to have some paragraph style,
after all. But you *can* convince Writer that you do not want
indentation. How you do this depends on exactly what you ant to
achieve. You could drag the triangular markers on the horizontal
ruler to where they need to be. Or you could make the changes - to a
paragraph - at Format | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing (or
right-click | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing) or - to the paragraph
style - at right-click | Edit Paragraph Style... | Indents &
Spacing. Or you could apply a different paragraph style, without the
indentation.
You don't say whether you see this behaviour in new documents or in
an existing one. If you are handling an existing document, remember
that you may have paragraph styles applied (either by you or by an
earlier editor of the document) that mandate the effects you are
claiming not to want. In this case, you will need to apply different
styles or to modify the existing ones.
Have you perhaps modified the default template? If the default
paragraph style has been modified here, you will see its consequences
in all new documents created with the default template, of course.
I do not want any formatting done for me. How can I completely
turn this off?
As I hope I've indicated, I think there is no single, simple answer
to this question!
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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