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Hello!
I was wondering if someone could help me with line spacing? Should be easy and self explanatory, I'm sure, but I'm a complete newbie; I do have it set to 1.5, but in some cases need to triple that. Problem is, when I save the document, it doesn't save the 4.5 spacing.
Any suggestions please?
Thank you,
Steffanie
Night wrote:
Hello!
I was wondering if someone could help me with line spacing? Should be easy and self explanatory, I'm sure, but I'm a complete newbie; I do have it set to 1.5, but in some cases need to triple that. Problem is, when I save the document, it doesn't save the 4.5 spacing.
Any suggestions please?Thank you,
Steffanie
What format, .doc or .odt. are you saving to?
[libreoffice-users] Formatting question
Night wrote:
Hello!
I was wondering if someone could help me with line spacing? Should be easy and self explanatory, I'm sure, but I'm a complete newbie; I do have it set to 1.5, but in some cases need to triple that. Problem is, when I save the document, it doesn't save the 4.5 spacing.
Any suggestions please?Thank you,
Steffanie
What format, .doc or .odt. are you saving to?
I'm saving as .odt.
Night wrote:
[libreoffice-users] Formatting question
Night wrote:
Hello!
I was wondering if someone could help me with line spacing? Should be easy and self explanatory, I'm sure, but I'm a complete newbie; I do have it set to 1.5, but in some cases need to triple that. Problem is, when I save the document, it doesn't save the 4.5 spacing.
Any suggestions please?Thank you,
Steffanie
What format, .doc or .odt. are you saving to?
I'm saving as .odt.
Are you using a paragraph style for the spacing change?
Andy
[libreoffice-users] Formatting question
Night wrote:
[libreoffice-users] Formatting question
Night wrote:
Hello!
I was wondering if someone could help me with line spacing? Should be easy and self explanatory, I'm sure, but I'm a complete newbie; I do have it set to 1.5, but in some cases need to triple that. Problem is, when I save the document, it doesn't save the 4.5 spacing.
Any suggestions please?Thank you,
Steffanie
What format, .doc or .odt. are you saving to?
I'm saving as .odt.
Are you using a paragraph style for the spacing change?
Andy
No, I don't change anything, I just hit enter 3x like I did with OpenOffice and assumed it would work like OpenOffice.
Night wrote:
[libreoffice-users] Formatting question
Night wrote:
[libreoffice-users] Formatting question
Night wrote:
Hello!
I was wondering if someone could help me with line spacing? Should be easy and self explanatory, I'm sure, but I'm a complete newbie; I do have it set to 1.5, but in some cases need to triple that. Problem is, when I save the document, it doesn't save the 4.5 spacing.
Any suggestions please?Thank you,
Steffanie
What format, .doc or .odt. are you saving to?
I'm saving as .odt.
Are you using a paragraph style for the spacing change?
Andy
No, I don't change anything, I just hit enter 3x like I did with OpenOffice and assumed it would work like OpenOffice.
So your using empty paragraphs, which should work. I just tried and
have no problem. The way your doing it is one way but not the best.
You should be using styles to define the looks of the paragraphs and it
will be more consistent. Using a word processor like a typewriter is
bad form and will lead to formatting issues.
Andy
No, I don't change anything, I just hit enter 3x like I did with OpenOffice and assumed it would work like OpenOffice.
So your using empty paragraphs, which should work. I just tried and
have no problem. The way your doing it is one way but not the best.
You should be using styles to define the looks of the paragraphs and it
will be more consistent. Using a word processor like a typewriter is
bad form and will lead to formatting issues.Andy
Yes, that's it! And it worked with OpenOffice and since they seemed so similar (except LibreOffice is nice, light and quick where OO was slow and clunky), I thought it would work, but once saved and uploaded, I look and it didn't. So I didn't even know it wasn't working till it was all said and done.
So, another question would be how do I go about styling paragraphs? Again, I'm new and never had to worry about it with OO.
Thank you!
Night wrote:
No, I don't change anything, I just hit enter 3x like I did with OpenOffice and assumed it would work like OpenOffice.
So your using empty paragraphs, which should work. I just tried and
have no problem. The way your doing it is one way but not the best.
You should be using styles to define the looks of the paragraphs and it
will be more consistent. Using a word processor like a typewriter is
bad form and will lead to formatting issues.Andy
Yes, that's it! And it worked with OpenOffice and since they seemed so similar (except LibreOffice is nice, light and quick where OO was slow and clunky), I thought it would work, but once saved and uploaded, I look and it didn't. So I didn't even know it wasn't working till it was all said and done.
So, another question would be how do I go about styling paragraphs? Again, I'm new and never had to worry about it with OO.Thank you!
It should be working, as I said it works as expected here.
As for styles there is no quick answer. Styles are used to define how
pages, paragraphs and characters look on a page. You best choice is to
got to http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ and download
or read the Working with Styles chapter of the Writers guide.
Andy
Hi Night,
Check out the PDF manual for writer. It has a good chapter on the "Introduction to Styles".
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/b/ba/0200WG3-WriterGuide.pdf (11MB)
Read this then post specific questions.
Sorry it took so long to get back, I was on vacation, but did get a little time to look into it and while I am going to use everyones suggestions it turns out it's not LO but the site I upload to. It reformats and I have to go in through their editor to fix it. Pain.
Anyway, again I am going to attempt everyones suggestions in hopes maybe one or all will override this.
Thanks again!
Hi 
It might be more productive to contact their webmaster/mistrees or find the
people that develop the site somehow. They might be able to giive better advice
on how to format stuff.
Regards from
Tom