Hi everyone,
I've looked a little through the archives to no avail, so my request
follows:
We are prototyping a few people in our office using OpenOffice 2.3 since
we need to replace MS Word 97. Mostly things are good (especially some
of the PDF output functionality), but I have struck one issue which I
don't know how to get around.
In Word 97 if I am correct, the spacing between a bulleted number and
its text is determined only by the setting for that line, with a default
used to set it at the time of the bulleted number being inserted. This
can be controlled by the two triangle-ish and one square shaped slider
at the top.
In OOo the setting in concern for me is under Format -> Bullets &
Numbering -> Position -> Spacing to text (and perhaps the Minimum space
numbering <-> text option as well, but I'll ignore that for now). This
can be either manipulated directly for any given line, or part of a style.
New documents in OOo seem to have a sane default value for this setting
(0.64cm), but .doc files that I open have this setting at 0, causing the
issue similar to what's discussed here:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=users&by=thread&from=664339
That is, the numbers are mashed up against the text.
It would seem to me that because Word doesn't have a place to store this
value in styles, OOo has a default value it uses for .doc imports, which
is 0. Is there a way to change this? I certainly don't want our users to
have to manually change every document they open! Even running a macro
on every document at open time[1] feels rather clumsy.
Curiously, once this setting is entered in OOo, it sticks even for .doc
files, so I guess the file format can handle it. Maybe I just haven't
found the place in Word where it's stored.
Thanks for bearing with the long email. Hopefully someone can help.
TIA,
Greg.
[1] I haven't looked into OOo macros yet (soon I hope), so I guess I'm
making assumptions about what I could potentially do with them.
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