On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 13:07 +0200, Denize wrote:
> David wrote:
> > Denize
> > right click on a paragraph,
> > and choose
> > "Edit Paragraph Style", and set your choice in the alignment tab.
> > The will change every paragraph with this style in the document.
> > Do not select all the text and click the centre icon (or press Ctrl/e)
> > as this only affects the text you happen to have selected.
> > 
> 
> Hi David and Russel
> 
> I really got to learn to formulate myself better :-)
> 
> The problem is not the text itself, but the page the text is written on. 
>   With my sreen resolution 1280*1024, the entire document is left 
> aligned, i.e. the white sheet of 'paper' is surrounded by a grey area 
> which is approx. 1½ cm wide to the left, but which is 10 cm to the right.
> 
> Ill. (bare with me)
> 
>    _______________________________________________________________
>    |                                                          |
>    |   __________________________________________             |
>    |   |                                              |               |
>    |   |                                              |               |
>    |   |       This is the paper on which I write     |Grey area      |
>    |   |                                              |               |
>    |   |                                              |               |
>    |   |                                              |               |       
>    |   |                                              |               |
> 
> 
> So what I would like to do is to center the paper so that there is an 
> equal width of grey area on each side of the paper:
> 
>    _______________________________________________________________
>    |                                                          |
>    |              __________________________________________          |
>    |              |                                         |         |
>    |         |                                              |         |
>    |  Grey   |         This is the paper on which I write   |Grey area|
>    |         |                                      |         |
>    |         |                                              |         |
>    |      |                                         |         |       
>    |         |                                              |         |
> 
> 
> Hope it makes it clearer?

You want to see the text area at all times, at least this is how I
interpret your description. I find setting View > Zoom > Optimal pretty
much does what I think you want. You can also set this in the status
bar.
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