Let say I have 3 paragraphs in one page. Now if I add few new sentences in 1st Paragraph, all 2 Paragraphs below the first, will move downwards in a continuous fashion.
However I want all these 3 paragraphs will start in a new page. Let say, first Paragraph will start in page #1, second Paragraph in page #2 and third Paragraph in page #3. Now if I add new lines in the first paragraph, the other 2 paragraphs below it will stay in the same pages respectively, until the first paragraph eventually become large enough to occupy first 2 pages. When that would happen, the second paragraph will move to page #3 and third paragraph will move to page #4 i.e. all paragraph will move in a discrete fashion such that each of them will start from a new page.
Is there any way to achieve the same in Libre-office?
Any pointer will be highly appreciated.
To make LibreOffice insert a page break before every paragraph, you can modify the paragraph style (or the paragraph properties) accordingly.
To modify your paragraphs 1-3 as described, select them, then select menu Format -> Paragraph to open the paragraph options. Select the "Text Flow" tab and under "Breaks", select "Insert", Type "Page", Position "Before".
To modify the default paragraph style accordingly, hit F11 to open the styles list, right-click on "Default style" and select "Modify". Again, a paragraph properties window will appear, but the modifications will affect every paragraph in your document, so this approach may lead to strange results.
The best way would be to define a custom paragraph style with the Page Break set as described, and assign that style to your paragraphs 1-3.
This is called a Page Break and the easiest way to insert it is CTRL+Enter.
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I'm trying to achieve this effect:
|First phrase...............................................Second phrase|
Where the | markers above denote the page margins, and ....... represents a 'horizontal space' (which may or may not use space as the character, a 'dot' as above, or any other character), which effectively expands to take as much space as possible between the two pieces of text.
This is pretty common, e.g., when designing a table of contents manually*, or when trying to achieve the kind of "chapter X...........page Y" effect in headers.
I know there's a specific and easy way to introduce this kind of 'expanding horizontal space', because I've done it in the past. But I just can't find it anymore. I just vaguely remember that the relevant menu allowed you to specify what character you wanted to use in this 'expanding space'. Also, it may or may not have involved the use of tabs.
Any ideas?
* Yes I know about the "Table of Contents" menu option, no I'm not trying to design a table of contents, it was just an example :)
I remembered.
Create a tab stop on the horizontal ruler above the page, right click to convert from a 'left' stop to a 'right' stop, and drag that stop all the way to the right margin.
Then, next time you press 'tab', the tab will automatically push any content to the right of your cursor, all the way to the right margin.
If you optionally also specify a fill character in the 'Tabs' tab of the 'Paragraph' formatting menu, the tab space will be filled with that character.
I am developing an OpenOffice Writer template that can be used to fill in reports for a child-care centre.
There are some standard outcomes, comprising long sentences, and I want the user to be able to select the appropriate sentence from a combo box. I have entered the sentences into a table in Openoffice Base database, which is then connected to a series of combo boxes in a Writer template. However, when the user choose an option that contains a very long sentence, only the text up to the length of the combo box is visible.
What I want to do is have the selected value of the combo-box wrap over several lines when selected so that all the (very long) text appears in the selected box when the user chooses a long sentence from the combo.
I have been looking through the properties of the combo box control, but have yet to identify one that will allow the selected value in the combo box to word-wrap (so that I could make the combo-box several lines in height such that the entire sentence would fit into the box).
Any pointers on how I could do this would be much appreciated.
thanks,
David.
Thanks Jim K, that was helpful. In the end, what I wound up doing was creating a textbox which I named "selectedOutcomeATextBox" immediately below my combo box which was named "OutcomeCombo".
I then attached the following macro code to the textModified event associated with the "selectedOutcomeATextBox":
Sub UpdateOutcomeA
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Form As Object
Dim Ctl As Object
Dim newCtl as Object
Doc = ThisComponent
Form = Doc.DrawPage.Forms.GetByIndex(0)
Ctl = Form.getByName("OutcomeCombo")
newCtl = Form.getByName("selectedOutcomeATextBox")
newCtl.Text = Ctl.Text
End Sub
I also set the "Printable" property of the "OutcomeCombo" to "No", so that when the document prints, the combo box itself does not appear on the printed page, but the "selectedOutcomeATextBox" textbox which has had its value set by the macro when I choose a value from the combo box does appear with the desired text. I also set the "TextType" property of the selectedOutcomeATextBox" text box to "Multi-Line", so that extra long text will wrap to the next line, thereby showing the very long strings that are stored there.
Thanks heaps Jim K.
cheers,
David Buddrige
Apparently combo boxes do not have the MultiLine attribute. The question was asked a few years ago here but was not solved.
One alternative that requires some macro programming is to use a single multi-line text field and then make a scroll bar button that changes the choice. Instead of a scroll bar, two buttons could be used to change the choice (Previous / Next), or even a list box control. Using a list box control in this way would have the advantage that they could see all the choices at once, like a combo box.
Another approach is to break up each sentence and display the parts across several lines of a list box. Then when one line is clicked, all the lines of a sentence are selected at once, using an event listener for the list box. This could be shown in addition to an ordinary editable multi-line text box, in case none of the answers in the list are wanted.
One more idea: Radio buttons can have multiple lines, so dynamically show radio buttons, one for each sentence. A dialog window could be displayed to hold the radio buttons. The result of the dialog would be used to fill the multi-line text field.
Or you could just live with the truncated sentences. Maybe it would help to make the control a little wider, or abbreviate the sentences.
What I'm trying to do is create a bullet list in 'two columns'. So you have the bullet, a word, a tab and some aligned text like in the example below.
You have several alternatives:
Create a two-column table, with invisible lines. Fill the first column with your "bullet" word, and the second column with your "definition" (or whatever you are putting there.
Adjust the formatting for your special list item to include a tab where you want the text to appear and provide a "hanging indent" that lines up overflow text with that tab.
The second option is probably the best for you.
I have a report displaying rows with text fields with variable length (I use the Can Grow option). I use a Box for the details. My problem is that when the last text field cannot fit into to the box on the bottom of the page, a empty space is left, and the new row begins on next page. Unchecking the option Keep Object Together on the fields, didn't solve the problem and if it did I don't want the content of the text field to break across pages.
My question is: Is it possible to auto-re-size box height depending on rows content, so I can avoid empty spaces at the bottom on every page (doesn't look very nice).
Thanks in advance.
There are three things I can think of that might help.
As you said, you can limit the maximum size of a "can grow" field. To the right of the can grow checkbox (in CR designer) there is a "Maximum number of lines" value that defaults to 0 (no limit). You can set that to however many lines you like.
The details section itself has a setting for "keep together" too -- right-click the details section label and go to the section expert. If you uncheck it there the details section will start on the bottom of the page and continue on the next one.
Look at the page footer section, it is printed at the bottom of each page, and if it is large, it takes away from the available space for the data. Group footers, if you have any, could give you the same problem.
Does anybody have a clue about how to remove the page numbering from a section break in a word 2007 doc?
I have to put 3 documents together
1st part contains the page numbering and the formatting
2nd part ends takes the numbering from the 1st part and continues it. It ends with a section break(next page)
3rd page also takes the numbering (the numbering starts from 1) and I don't want that.
The last part contains some covers and other info pages and I don't want any numbering on them.
The 2nd and 3rd parts were inserted using AltChunk. I've tried locking the 3rd part for editing, i've tried putting a white rectangle over the footer, in front of the text, i've tried putting a section break (continuous) at the beginning of the 3rd part...all for nothing. The 3rd part simply adopts the same footer as the previous parts.
Can you please give me any feedback, ideas on how to find a solution or a workaround?