Let say I have a sentence as This is my whole sentence.
Now I want a part of above sentence This is left aligned. And the remaining part of same sentence my whole sentence as right aligned.
I basically wanted to have option to configure Footer of my document, as part to go left side and another part on the right side.
Is there any way to achieve this with Libre-office writer?
Any pointer will be highly appreciated.
This is done using a tabulator - the tabulation character is entered from the keyboard using the Tab key, and the result of its application is controlled by the type of tabulator and its position on the ruler.
The video shows the formatting of the Header with a Tab. The same steps apply to both Footer and normal paragraph text.
Enter the text you want
Remove unnecessary (preset) Tabs from the Ruler - just drag them aside
By clicking on the Tab Type icon in the upper left corner, set the desired type of future tabulator
Place the cursor in the desired place of your text and press the Tab key
Tab types change cyclically with each click - Left (default), Right, Center, and By Decimal Separator (used to align numbers).
Use the Edit Tabs to fine-tune tab stops
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I'm a longterm user of Notepad++ and new user of VSCode, where I think the column mode workflow is rather poor. I'm seeking help to reproduce the NPP workflow so far as is possible.
In NPP it goes like this:
hold down AltGR (right hand Alt key)
select column with mouse
copy to clipboard
choose destination top left anchor
paste
Pasting overwrites whatever was there before with the clipped column, which is clear and obvious.
The column always pastes exactly as selected. Whitespace is auto-created before the column if it's pasted into a blank area.
In VSCode I have to
select top or bottom corner of intended column
hold down left hand Alt plus shift
select column with mouse
copy to clipboard
use same technique to choose destination column
paste
I use a mouse in my left hand. The key combination requires a really awkward reach across the keyboard. Attempting to use AltGR as a keybinding shows it to be 'Alt' the same as the key on the left. But it doesn't work as Alt for binding column mode so I can't use the right hand pair.
Unless the destination column is accurately chosen pasting will overwrite with the clipped contents including introduced linebreaks but not respecting the column indentation. For instance clipping a 3 line column and pasting into a 2 line selection produces the most extraordinary mess. Counting lines manually is fine with just two or three but rapidly becomes absurd.
Pasting into a blank area isn't possible.
Pasting into whitespace is governed by indentation rules. I've turned them off, so pasting a column puts the first line in the right place and the rest at the margin. That isn't ever likely to be what's actually wanted.
To my mind the workflow is backwards: in my head it goes 'I want column mode, now I'll choose the column' not 'I'll choose some anchor and then invoke column mode'. Maybe that's just me.
So I'm finding it all very unnatural. Can anyone suggest which if any parts of this can be changed for the better please.
You can use middle-click-drag to do what you want, although it's pretty awful.
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 working on a worksheet which has long header names. I want to display table compactly using icon images instead of using header labels. Say I have a column named "Population Density" in a table. I would like a population icon to show up instead of full label.
Probably the closest you could come with this is using Unicode Emoji in a column alias.
For measure values, right click the header and click "Edit Alias", then paste the unicode emoji into the text box.
For dimensions, right click the pill and click "Edit in Shelf". Move the cursor to the beginning of the line and press Shift+Enter to add a new line above, then press the up arrow. Type // on the new line, paste the selected unicode emoji, and hit Enter.
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.
Is there a good way to make horizontal lines actually line up in Crystal Reports? I can select text and field objects, right-click, and do various sizing and alignments. But that's not an option with a line. I need header fields underlined (and for whatever reason, our standard says to NOT use underline), and I want them to line up across the report.
It's a pain, but I've found one way to do it.
Both field and line items have a right-click menu option called "Size and Position". It doesn't take just any value, especially with Snap to Grid turned on (and doesn't always take exactly what you choose with it not turned on), but you can carefully make sure each line has the same Y value (for horizonal lines). And, if you want them to align and be the same length as the field headers they are underlining, compare each header field X and Width values, and make each line also match that.
In design mode, you can add horizontal guide lines by clicking in the ruler (the vertical one) fields will get sticky to it.
You can also select several fields, right click "Align > Bottoms" and them move the fields to the guide lines.
You can also format a single field to "lock its position and size", then Align the others to it
Another way is to select all the lines you want to left align, move them to the far left with the left cursor key until they hit the left margin and keep pressing the left key until they all align themselves. Just a trick!
Put a bottom border on the header Text Object.