You suggest that I right click the style in use from the Paragraph Styles menu-- but this can't be done from an Apple/Mac.
I searched through the instruction manual, and the help index, to try and figure out how to "enable kerning" - and didn't come up with a solution. Sorry for being so dense, but is there anyone that can help me please resolve this problem? Best, Jon On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:01 -0800, Jon Silk wrote: > Thanks again for the fast reply! > > More questions embedded in your response below... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sun 3/19/2006 4:43 PM > To: [email protected]; Jon Silk > Subject: Re: [users] New Questions - Character Shifting, Delay/Slow > Processing Speed, & Mac Intel Compatibility > > As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: > On Sun March 19 2006 11:12, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > > On 19/03/2006, at 8:36 PM, Jon Silk wrote: > > > Firstly, thank you for the response! > > > > > > I returned my Mac Mini for the new Intel Mac Mini with OS 10.4.5. > > > > > > I have Open Office running off of X11, which I had to custom > > > install from the OS X 10.4.5 installation DVD. > > > > > > I have a few questions: > > > > Hi Jon, > > > > Lets see how we go with answers for your questions: > > > 1) When I open MS Word documents in my Open Office, the characters > > > and spacing shift; my resume, for example, went from being one page > > > in MS Word, to over 1.5 pages in Open Office. What gives? > > > > The most common cause I have seen for this is that you are using a > > font that is not available on the platform and it guesstimates what > > font to use. This causes some differences in the font used and > > changes to the size. > > I'm using Times New Roman font size 11, which both applications (Word > and Open Office) have-- I don't understand why the spacing is > shifting. > I supect that you need to enable kerning in OOo. It is off by default. The easy way to correct this is to modify the paragraph style you use. To do so, open the Styles toolbar, select paragraph styles ( usually the first icon on the left), locate the style in use and right click to bring up the context menu and select modify. Now go to the Position tab and near the bottom right is a check box labelled Pair kerning, enable it by clicking in the box. This should correct the odd spacing. Lastly that kerning is off by default is an existing RFE but I forget the number. > > [snipped] -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
