On Sunday April 9 2006 06:40 pm, Richard Cleaveland wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > Matt Needles wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 23:29 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >>> G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > >>>> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 16:50 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: > >>>>> I'm editing a document in "normal" (nonprinting) view. How do I > >>>>> see whether there's a hard page break inserted? (Actually, I would > >>>>> guess the > >>>>> same question would arise in printing view, unless one could infer > >>>>> from > >>>>> spacing seen at the bottom of some page.) I thought selecting > >>>>> "Nonprinting Characters" would show it, but it only shows > >>>>> paragraph market, not anything for hard return. There isn't > >>>>> anything under Styles > >>>>> and Formatting either that I can find that shows the presence of > >>>>> the hard page break. > >>>> > >>>> Normal? There are two view choices, Print and Web layout. If you > >>>> are referring to Web layout then I do not understand as web pages > >>>> do _NOT_ have page breaks. Please explain. > >>> > >>> I think that the OP is comparing OOo with MSO. In the latter it is > >>> possible to see on screen where manual page breaks have been > >>> inserted: in OOo this does not seem possible, creating some editing > >>> difficulties. > >>> > >>> Peter HB > >> > >> In OOo, a hard page break <ctrl-Enter> is indicated by a dark line at > >> the top margin of the new page. > > > > Thanks for that, Matt. Now that I know it's there I can almost see it! > > Of course Text Boundaries have to be on and my ancient eyes can barely > > differentiate between the darker (very slightly) top boundary line and > > the side ones. > > > > I still think there should be some indication of a hard page break, > > even when text boundaries are off. I'll give some thought to raising > > an issue for this. > > I for one agree. If only that line could be made wider - or dotted or > dashed - it would be a lot more recognizable. > > Dick
Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Appearance. Has anyone gone to the Text Document section of this and change the Page and Column Break setting? Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
