Brian Barker wrote:
At 03:34 04/11/2007 -0500, Leslie Wright wrote:
One feature of MS Word that has not been ported to OO Writer is the
Page Layout feature that allows one to align text vertically in the
middle of the page, evenly distributed on either side of an imaginary
horizontal line across the middle of the page, as in a title page on a
term paper for example. In my old Word 2000 this feature is executed
by going File > Page Setup.... and selecting the Layout tab and
choosing Center from the Vertical Alignment drop down box.
OO Writer does not seem to replicate this feature. Indeed, when I open
a document created in Word in OO Writer this vertical alignment is
lost, and I have to reinstate it by altering the top and bottom
margins or simply adding blank lines in the section in question. It is
not an irreconcilable incompatibility, but it is a little irksome.
Thankfully, OO Writer does allow the insertion of page and section
breaks similar to Word so that one can have different alignments,
margins, and formats in different sections of the documents.
If anyone has noted this issue as well and has come up with a more
elegant workaround i would love to hear about it.
There is a neat way to do this in OpenOffice Writer, in fact: using a
frame.
o Go to Insert | Frame... | Type.
o For Anchor, you can choose anything *except* "As character".
o Under Position | Vertical (on the same tab), choose Centre and the
appropriate option ("Entire page"?) from the right-hand box too.
o Select other options as required (disabling borders?).
o Enter your text into the frame.
You will see that the text centres itself vertically on the page.
This is the best solution, but it's worth noting that a single-celled table of
an appropriate size will also support vertical centring .
Peter HB
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