Immanuel CRC Office wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
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.
The partial problem is transferring this back and forth with Word people
so it needs to be something that is supported in both and easy to use.
Frames and Marginalia both don't seem like they will work.
Any other ideas out there? Anyone know why OOo can't have a tab stop
outside a margin?
Since the text margins mark the end positions for text on a page, it
makes sense that one cannot place text outside the margin, except by
using frames, etc. (That MS Word allows one to tab beyond the margin is
an oddity.)
However, what might work for you is to increase the right margin
position and then define a 2-column table to cover the text area where
you want some marginal text. Set the right border of the first column to
match your original right margin setting (6.7") and the right border of
the second column with your new right margin setting.
You can then use a tab to jump to the second column and enter text
there. You can set the left border spacing in the second column to
create spacing so that text in that column begins at 7.28".
If you want a marginal entry at the beginning of each paragraph, you
might create a new row in the table for each paragraph.
Jallan
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