Robert Peirce wrote:
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.
There's a much easier way to copy tab stops and other paragraph
formatting from one paragraph to another.
Go to where you want to copy the tabs (and other formatting) from. Click
on the Format Paintbrush icon on the toolbar (in my fairly standard
configuration, it is near the middle of the top toolbar; it looks like a
paintbrush).
Then go to where you want to copy the formatting to, and click anywhere
in that paragraph. That should do it! (I just verified on my system that
it works as described.)
