At 14:08 19/09/2007 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
I'm making my resume in Writer and I'm wondering how to make better
Horizontal lines. Right now I go to Insert >> Horizontal Ruler...,
which provides either "Plain" or what looks like bitmaps for lines.
I don't like this. The Plain one is double lined and isn't easy to
move around in the document. It must be for compatibility with HTML.
It is really ugly so I can't use that one. As for the horizontal
lines that appear to be bitmaps, they're ugly too. They're not very
professional looking. They use fancy fading and coloring. These too
are difficult to move around in the document as they don't lock to
any sort of grid. It's very hard to place them.
Is there a better way to create horizontal lines in my document for
my resume? They need to be black (preferably) and I would expect
them to clamp to lines in the document so they're easy to place in
the document. I need lines that look professional enough for a resume.
One - probably better and certainly more flexible - way to do this is
by applying borders to your paragraphs. With the cursor in the
relevant paragraph, go to Format | Paragraph... (or right-click |
Paragraph...) and then the Borders tab. Use "Line arrangement" to
select a border above or below the paragraph, or both. Choose the
line style and colour and, on the right, the spacing from the paragraph text.
You cannot move the resulting lines around the document, of course,
as they are borders attached to the paragraphs themselves. But you
hardly need to: you can very easily adjust the spacing from preceding
and following material.
There is also an AutoCorrect option that you may or may not find
helpful. If you type three identical characters from this set:
minus, underscore, equals, asterisk, swung dash, hash mark, in a new
paragraph and then press Enter, a (different) border will
automatically be added beneath the previous paragraph.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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