Robert Gott wrote:
7. As a writer of novels the exact cursor position is VITAL when I
come to paginate manuscripts for home printing on A4 paper.
You have become used to a feature of MS Word not found in OOo Writer.
But, if it is necessary to have a certain number of characters in a line
and a certain number of lines per page, then use a fixed-width font and
set your pages to contain the number of characters across and number of
lines down that you want.
Go to Tools -> Options... -> OpenOffice.org Writer -> View and assure
that the elements Ruler, Horizontal Ruler, and Vertical Ruler are all
checked.
The rulers will provide a visual indication of where you are on the
page. (You can also set measurements to either inches or centimeters.)
You can also set line numbering on the page through Tools -> Line
numbering... and clicking on "Show numbering". However you cannot make
this line number invisible when you print, and if you don't want it to
print out, you will have to turn it off before printing. (I expect you
could set up a macro to automatically turn it off before printing and
then turn it on again automatically immediately after printing.) You can
set various parameters in respect to line numbering, for example whether
the lines should start again at 1 for every page or whether blank lines
should be counted. Play with this.
To get a word and character count for either a selected section of your
document or the entire document, use Tools -> Word Count (or type Alt-T W).
You can also set styles to automatically indent to whatever depth of
indent you want.
Set your page size to A4, if that's what you use, and keep it at that
setting for normal documents.
File -> Properties -> Statistics -> Update provides further information.
Though not so easy as MS Word, at least, for a beginning user, I think
you will find that currently OOo Writer does provide what you need.
Note, this is a volunteer forum, and answers by myself or others do not
represent any official OpenOffice.org response.
Jallan
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