On Monday 30 October 2006 11:09 am, Brenda ML Brown, Legal
Secretary/Assistant wrote:
> I need to indent the first line of a paragraph. In word I would
> click on the little triangle up in the ruler section of the screen
> and bring it over to hover above the "1" and it would move that
> line along with it. NOW, in OpenOffice I can move those little
> triangles until the cows come home and it does not move the
> wording.
>
> I need to be able to format the first line and have the second
> lines stay where they are. I have gone to Format, Paragraph and
> played around with every setting I can do and nothing helps me.
>
> Please let me know if you can help...anyone.
>
> For example:
>
> WHEREFORE, blah blah blah
> adfadthl;kae
>
> needs to look like:
>
> WHEREFORE, blah blah blah
> blahddfadoljdafkjadfa
>
> Everytime I try to move it, the second lines stay right under the
> WHEREFORE and they need to just stay put.
Format > Paragraph is one place to go. Once you are there, you
need to click the Indents and Spacing tab. The third line down is
labeled "First line". Enter the amount of indentation you want the
first line to have and click OK. That should work.
If you want to be able to do more complex things with a text
document, you will need to learn how to use styles. The chapter on
styles in the Getting Started Guide is a good place to start. Get it
at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/. There
are several other chapters and manuals on this page that may interest
you now or in the future.
Dan
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