how to write in two separate column in writer?

users
#1

hi,
what i want to do is something like this with writer-

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
                         jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
                          iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

one way is to use space button repeatedly;but is there any other way to
achieve this?
regards,

#2

I just see a two lines with a series of letters. Not sure what you are trying to do. My email client doesn't seem to have the same formatting as yours. Can you describe what you want in words.

Jerry

#3

Try using FORMAT>>COLUMNS then select on many on the dialogue box.

If you are trying to have variable indent you can set the tab stops on the ruler (View>>Ruler) to where you want them. Then you can tab over.

Another possibility is to use a table without showing any borders.

#4

http://minus.com/meEEgsUGc
want to do something like this in *writer* @jerry.
jay's idea about using table with invisible sounds good.will check it
regards,

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Columns might be easier?  Hopefully there might be an appropriate chapter in the Writer guide
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications

Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

thanks jay,that's what i was trying to achieve.both of the ideas are working
regards,

#7

Glad they worked

#8

Tom,

The problem with columns is that you can not put anything in the second column until you fill the first one.

Jerry

#9

You can pretty much do Insert -> Manual break -> Column break. I think that
this should do the job.

#10

If you want to type different things in different columns, then maybe
create a 2-column table and remove the borders...so say if you wanted to
give a text in two languages...

Dean

#11

LO Writer will not complain, if you combine several languages in one document.
If you worry about automatic spell-checking underlining all words in one of
languages, you can change language in Character properties (or in Font tab in
paragraph style).

But, of course, you can use borderless table as well. There is just more than
one way to do it.