In article <[email protected]>, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 23:24 30/12/2008 -0500, Robert Peirce wrote: > >I often need to copy tabbed tables from one doc to another. It > >would be helpful if I could take the tab stops along, but I can't > >figure out how to do it. I also can't figure out how, for example, > >to stick a line in a table and have it use the same tab stop as the > >other lines. > > I'm guessing that by "tabbed tables" you mean those created not using > what OpenOffice calls a table, but just aligning material in columns > using tabs. And you are talking about a text (Writer) document - right? > > I find tabs normally being carried over, in fact. But I think I see > one problem. Tabs are a paragraph (and paragraph style) property, > not a character property. Yes, the tabbed tables are created by aligning data in columns, and you provided the clue to solve the problem. Format->Paragraph->Tabs lists all the tabs and their type. Writing this information down for the correct lines and creating a new list for the full table aligns everything properly. It is a bit tedious but only has to be done once. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
