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From: "mike scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jonathon Coombes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [users] 2 hours to set tabs :-((
On 16 Jan 2006 at 12:47, Jonathon Coombes wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:31 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
> Hi again,
> I'll be wearing out my welcome, but here I go
> again. I was presented with a 17 page list of
> names and relevant page numbers. This was
> created: sometimes using spaces, sometimes
> default tabs and sometimes user defined tabs.
> The whole looks like a dogs breakfast and
Now, setting the tabs - I take it you placed
three user-defined tab placements on the ruler?
Hi Mike:
I have studied Help re tab but what is a user defined tab?
If no text is highlighted I click on the ruler where I need
a tab, select the type and that is that. When I highlight
more than one line the tabs disappear.
This works no matter what text you have highlighted.
If you want to adjust the tabs themselves, then it
will be different for each one, as they are probably
a different paragraph for each line/record.
...
Another couple of suggestions.
If you have perl around, it's a one-liner to tidy up the separators.
A bit more:
Don't know programming apart from very basic BASIC :-)
Being 71 years old I don't mind learning how to use OO, but
without going beyond its limits.
If not, you could call the whole thing a csv file and read into calc
specifying tab and space as separator, and merge separators (always
assuming no blank fields - messy if so!), then you can either print
from the spreadsheet, or re-export as csv (tab sep) and load into
'writer'.
And more:
Some of these files are 20 or more pages long :-{
Within 'writer', if you want to set tabs everywhere the same, select
all the text (^A) and set tab stops. Or use a style as others have
suggested.
Last word:
Any quick hint on how to change the default style?
Me too :-))
Regards, Max.
I think :-)
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