At 19:06 16/11/2007 -0800, Elizabeth Hill wrote:
[...] I had a Microsoft Word doc and it was full of Text Boxes
(Frames). I turned it into a Oo doc. All the Frames went kaflooy.
[...]
A new Frame created in the new doc. I tried to type the information
in the way that all the other Frames' information was placed. It
would not let me. When I went to the next line it would not go down
just one space, when I used the Enter Key, it skipped. (It would
not skip if I typed until it moved down automatically at the edge of
the Frame). Furthermore, I had a battle with the Oo program trying
to make some of my rows into numbered bullets when I hit the Enter
Key to move down. The bullet box kept popping up even though I
clicked it "off" each time. There was nothing that needed
numbering. (The bullet box did not do that to me with any of the
other Frames I worked on). [...]
Gremlins?
Not gremlins: styles!
If you create a frame, any text entered into it seems to pick up the
"Frame contents" paragraph style by default. (See the paragraph
style windows towards the left of the Formatting
toolbar.) Right-click in the text and select Edit Paragraph Style to
see the definitions of "Frame contents". In particular, on the
Indents & Spacing tab, Spacing | Below paragraph is set (on my
system) to 0.21cm (presumably chosen because it is 6 points, in
fact). With this style, paragraphs are automatically separated by
6-point leading.
If this is what is happening and you don't want it, you have two
options: either change the setting in the "Frame contents" style, or
else change the paragraph style to something else - perhaps even
Default. My guess is that, in order to reproduce the effect in your
frames imported from the Word document, the paragraph style applied
to the existing frames is not "Frame contents" but something different.
The automatic numbering and bulleting is fine when you need it, but
tedious when you don't. I don't know why the dialogue box should
appear, in fact, but here are some ideas on how to deal with the problem:
o Writer sees what you did as two items: the Enter that you typed to
create a paragraph break and the automatic numbering that it
applied. If, when you see an undesirable effect, you immediately go
to Edit | Undo (or Ctrl+Z), it will undo just the latter of these, so
it will remove the automatic formatting and leave the paragraph break
that you wanted.
o Go to Format | AutoFormat >. If you remove the tick from While
Typing, you will turn off changes of this sort for the moment.
o Go to Tools | AutoCorrect... | Options. Remove the tick from
"Apply numbering - symbol: *" if you wish to disable this process altogether.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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