On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:19 -0400, Immanuel CRC Office wrote: > I am converting a Word document and have found that OpenOffice.org does > not appear to allow tab stops outside the page margin. > > For instance, in Word, I have 0.5" left, and 1.1" right on letter paper. > This gives me about 6.7" of text space. If I make a right tab at 7.28", > the text only goes to the edge of the text space, to 6.7" when I want > the text to go beyond. Is there any way to do this? If I look at the > settings, they do say 7.28" for the tab, but the text doesn't end up there. > > If this is not possible, then is the 'workaround' to set the page > margins bigger and set most lines in further? That's not really a great > solution since it is easier to do extra tab for the lines that want to > go out further. > > Thanks for any help to get s workable solution, > Crystle >
Crystal,
I think you have two choices.
1. Use a frame
2. Use the Marginalia feature.
(1) is probably the easiest if you do not need to do a lot.
And you could always modify the page style.
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