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From: "Richard Detwiler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 12 August 2006 20:18
Subject: Re: [users] I am using version 2.03 of OpenOffice.org. My problem
is : centering text
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Detwiler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 12 August 2006 14:42
Subject: Re: [users] I am using version 2.03 of OpenOffice.org. My
problem is : centering text
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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 21:55 -0700, Russell Pardo wrote:
i have 2 pages of text that i pasted into oo.o writer. i highlight 3
lines and used the center button and it centers all 2 pages of text
and not the 3 lines selected.
Sounds odd for sure. However, to help make any suggestions on a
solution
to your problem it requires that we know which OS you use. Please tell
us. Also check that Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > View > Mouse has
settings that reflect the way you work.
I'm wondering if there is any chance that your two pages of text is one
long paragraph? That would explain what you described, since centering
happens by paragraph, not by line within a paragraph. (So selecting a
single line (or even clicking at a single point) within a paragraph and
clicking the center button will center the whole paragraph, not just
that one line.)
Does that mean then that one cannot centre a line within a paragraph -
surely not? Perhaps you can tell us all how to do it? I don't know
otherwise I would give the details but I do think that is what the OP was
asking.
Ron Ferguson
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Correct, you can't center a single line within a paragraph, without
centering the whole paragraph. At least not by clicking the center button.
It's possible to do this by using a tab (use the "center" tab stop and put
it in the center of the horizontal page width).
If you have a single line you want centered, just put a paragraph break
(by pressing enter) before and after the line, then they'll be no problem
centering just that line.
Actually, I'm not sure why one would want to center a line within a
paragraph, as opposed to creating a paragraph break, but maybe there's
some reason I'm not grasping. Normally you'd type until the line wraps
automatically, which means you'd be filling up more of the line with text.
So centering wouldn't really do much.
Thanks very much, Richard, it's not something that I'm likely to do very
often (if at all) but it's always nice to know how, should one want.
Ron Ferguson
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