At 2/23/2009 1:58 AM Tim Deaton wrote:
At 18:05 16/02/2009 -0500, Brian Barker wrote:
At 17:08 16/02/2009 -0500, Tim Deaton wrote:
I'm using OOo Writer v3.01 (OOO300m15 build 9379) on WinXP SP2. The
hardware is a no-name PC with an AMD Duron 950mhz processor and 1gb
ram.
Whenever I write a letter on OOo and then use |Insert|Envelope| to
print the envelope on a #10 envelope, the recipient's address wants
to print too far to the right.
When I look at the document formatting
(|Envelope|Format|Addressee|Positions|), the "From left" field reads
4.75". But when I get to the "Print Preview" screen, that's only
where the "Addressee" box starts. The actual text is INDENTED an
additional two inches -- putting it at the extreme right-hand side
of the envelope.
The only things I can see that is likely to cause this are the
paragraph or paragraph style properties of the address text. How are
you inserting the address? If you type it on the Envelope tab of the
Envelope dialogue, there should be no problem, but note that if you
copy and paste it from the associated letter (or elsewhere), then the
formatting of the source text will be carried over. If that is the
problem, the solution is simply to use Edit | Paste Special... (or
Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of ordinary Paste, and choose "Unformatted
text" from the available options. That pastes the text but allows it
to inherit the formatting of the destination.
Alternatively, the address text in the envelope apparently has the
paragraph style "Addressee". Has this style become altered to create
the effect you see? Right-click in the address and select Edit
Paragraph Style... | Indents & Spacing | Indents. Is there a
non-zero figure (perhaps your two inches?) for "Before text" or
"First line"? You can correct it there.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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Thanks. The "Addressee" style appears to be the problem.
I wrote another letter tonite and investigated that. I used a
"personal letterhead" template I had created to start the letter.
While in the document created from that, I clicked on | Format |
Styles and Formatting |, then right-clicked on the "Addressee" style
and selected "Edit". It showed a 2" indention for that style.
I then went back to the default blank document that opens when I start
Writer and checked the "Addressee" style the same way. It showed a 0"
indention.
I have no idea how the 2" indention for that style got into my
template in the first place, but I've now edited the template to try
to fix the "Addressee" style in that. Hopefully (if I did it right),
that will fix the problem.
Tim Deaton
I think I've found the source of my problem above, and thought I'd
record it for others' benefit.
Today I opened an MS Word 97 letter in OOo, to use it as the basis for a
new letter. I saved the result in odt format. Then, when I went to
print the envelope, I found the 2" indentation problem that I was
fighting above (but which I hadn't had any problems with since using
Brian's suggestion).
Apparently, the source of my original problem was that I had created my
"letter" template from another MS Word file.
Tim Deaton
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