Just want to say thanks very much for all the good help. I've found that I can in fact use the vertical ruler to find the horizontal center if I set the margins to 0 (otherwise, the ruler takes the margins into account, so that it shows the center of the print range rather than the center of the paper.) Several good suggestions here, and they are all helpful. Thanks again, all, Helen
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Russell Butler <[email protected]>wrote: > On 22/10/10 16:43, Tom Bell wrote: > >> On 10/21/2010 9:16 AM, Helen wrote: >> >>> In Open Office 3.0, is there a way to divide my page into quarters, a >>> grid >>> that will not show when printed but that help me to know where the >>> horizontal (especially) and vertical (nice but not necessary) folds will >>> be when the page is printed and folded? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Did you go to the menu --> "Format" --> "Page". >> When the Page Style: Default window opens, go to Columns Index and >> change Columns to "2". >> Then broaden the Spacing as far as you feel necessary to get the center >> wide enough. >> You can probably save this as a template for later use. >> When you draw a line across the middle to mark the center fold, you can >> "select" the line and >> it will show middle-to-top and middle-to-bottom page rulers on the side. >> This will help to center >> the line more exactly. >> Another way to find the exact center would be to draw two lines >> _diagonally _across the page >> and where they cross will be the exact center and then you can move the >> horizontal line to the >> intersection of those two lines. >> Hope this helps! >> Good luck! >> >> Tom >> >> > Hi Helen, > > You can also go to Tools-Options-Writer-View and turn on horizontal and > vertical rulers. There is also a Grid option, but I'm not sure how helpful > that would be - seems to depend on fixed spacing. > > I'm using OOo3.2 on ubuntu, but I believe these options have been present > for a long time. > > Regards > > Russell > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Helen Etters using Linux, using openSUSE11.0
