On 27/12/2007 19:52, Ariane Fischer wrote:
Hello, I need some help with a specific feature of open office. I am
using word but have a laptop that only has open office. Hence, I make
changes in open office and save them as a word document. Now, all my
footnotes appear automatically indented in the word version of the
text. Since my work is extremely long (dissertation), I don't want to
manually adjust the endnotes. Can you help me find out how to disable
the automatic indent function in open office and or change the
settings in word?
Thanks.
I think that what you need is to change OpenOffice's "style" for
Footnotes and/or Endnotes. In your Writer document, enter one of the
footnotes and do Format>Styles & Formatting (or press F11). Choose
Paragraph Styles from the row of icons at the top of the pane that opens
and then *right* click on the style named Footnote. Choose Modify and
then choose the Indents & Spacing tab. Make the adjustments you want and
click OK. Close the Styles & Formatting pane. All the footnotes will
adjust themselves.
Repeat the process for Endnotes if you need to adjust those too.
You could create a template with the adjusted styles. Opens a blank
document, press F11 and choose Special Styles from the drop-down list at
the bottom of the pane that opens. Now you can choose Footnote and make
the necessary adjustments as above. Adjust Endnote the same way in the
same blank document. Then save the result as a template using
File>Templates>Save and giving the new template a name you'll easily
remember. You can make this template your default template after saving
it: do File>Templates>Organise and then select the template in question;
press the Commands button on the right and select Set as Default Template.
Now I don't have MS Office installed so I can't test the interaction of
this with Word's view of the world. If Word shows the footnotes as
indented and Writer claims there is no indent then I'd guess Word is
adjusting things as it opens your document and you'll need to teach it
better manners. I'm afraid I think you'll need to consult Microsoft's
support (or a local guru, or Word's inbuilt Help) for details. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242450 for details about searching
Microsoft's "knowledge base" which, surprisingly, is often useful.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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