libreoffice tab behind end margin - libreoffice

In the feature list of Libreoffice 3.5 I read, that it is possible to set an tabulator behind the end margin ([1] text from feature list), so the text will continue after this tab instead inserting a newline.
I've tried this with Libreoffice 3.5.4, but it seems not to work.
Any suggestions, what i did wrong?
Or did I misunderstood this feature?
Cheers Sven
[1]
When a tab stop is set behind the end margin, the tab uses this value and does not go to a new line. A compatibility option has been added, thus only new documents will behave this way.

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How to add automatically expanding horizontal space in libreoffice (similar to say flex justify-content space-around)

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.

How to put the cursor at the end of all selected lines in Visual Studio Code?

I have the following code:
CList.Add( new CodeStuff(941,"National List Limit
CList.Add( new CodeStuff(945,"Code not used
CList.Add( new CodeStuff(946,"State Building Height Limit
CList.Add( new CodeStuff(993,"Building Material Type
CList.Add( new CodeStuff(1033,"Not used - requirements changed
CList.Add( new CodeStuff(1034,"Current Unacceptable Applications
CList.Add( new CodeStuff(1035,"Historical Unacceptable Applications
I got the first bit using Alt+Shift+mouse button and typing. How do I add "); to the end of each line?
I had to use Notepad++ macro recording to do it and this is the only reason I still hang on to that editor. If someone can tell me how to do it in VSCode, I'd be very grateful.
Not completely sure I understand, but Shift-Alt-I will put a cursor at the end of all selected lines so just select your text and Shift-Alt-I (that is an 'eye' at the end). Then typing "); will put that at the end of each line.
---------------------- Edit -------------------------------
I see that Column Selection Mode (in v1.43) does this nicely now (with Selection/Column Selection Mode enabled) depending on your direction of selection [unfortunately the gif does a poor job of showing the cursors but they are all at the beginning or ends of the lines depending on the direction of selection]:
On Mac Vscode, I believe the trick is to "mouse" select the lines you wish to append, then hit Shift+Option+I.
On Windows 10, if I hit ShiftAltI, all the cursors go to the beginning of each line. To move the cursors to the end of each line, simply hit the End key after that.

Trouble Removing Highlight from Bullet Points and Numbered Lists

I edited a document from a client with some highlights then later decided to remove the highlights for comments instead.
For whatever reason, the document highlighted a number of bullet point and numbered list sections which I could not revert when I attempted to select the entire document and change the highlighting to 'No Fill'.
The highlighted bullet point/number lists did not allow me to select them to revert.
Searches on Google seemed to result in a ton of convoluted "[Solved]" responses on their forum which didn't fix the issue for me (or resulted in a TLDR response from my brain...):
Google Search: open office remove highlight bullet lists
[Solved] Yellow highlighting won't go away
[Solved] Bullet highlighting will not go away.
[Solved] Surprise Yellow Highlighting on Bullets & Numbers
Permanently highlighted bullets.
[Solved] Oddities Involving Bullets/Outlines & Font Styles
[Solved] Bullet color
Seriously... what the heck!? How can this be so hard? So I decided this issue needed some serious StackOverflow help...
Version info:
Apache OpenOffice-4.1.4
AOO414m5(Build:9788) - Rev. 1811857
2017-10-11 20:12
So after all that...
I figured it out. But its still crazy how it's not answered very clearly in the resources above... I hope this helps someone not spend as much time on this in the future.
If you double-click the first bullet/number of the list... it appears to select the first word of the first item of the list, BUT you'll see that it also selects the list bullets/numbers with a dark gray highlight.
Now selected, you can remove the highlight from the list.
Selecting all of the document doesn't select the numbered/bulleted lists.
Well, most of this solutions didnt helped me.
But I found a simple way to fix it:
Select Highlight option.
Position to the left of the bullet until the cursor converts to a white arrow.
One click to highlight entire text line. One click again to un-highlight the entire text line (including the bullet).
Select the highlighted area, rather "highlight" the highlighted area and press CTRL+Q, it is a paragraph formatting issue and this should remove all formatting from the selected area.
The answers above didn't work. Try this (mouse-select means left-click and drag the selection of words, aka highlighting but wanted to avoid confusion):
Turn on paragraph marks ¶ in Word
Add a clean paragraph before the highlighted-bullet sentence. (Clean means it's unbulleted, without colour highlight, unformatted)
Mouse-select the entire bulleted sentence containing the highlighted bullet. Make sure the selection also goes left before the highlighted bullet to include the clean paragraph above it i.e. your selection should include the ''¶'' mark of the clean paragraph you created in 2.
Apply white/clear/no-colour highlighting.
It's actually pretty simple though I was having trouble with it myself. Just select all the items of that particular bulleted/numbered list and highlight them. Then select the items again and remove the highlight. Doing that removed the highlights from the bullets too for me.
Super frustrating but here's the fix that's always worked for me (even with .doc or .docx file):
Double click the bulleted/numbered list item so they all highlight
Ctrl + Spacebar (resets character formatting)
Apply any needed formatting (font type, bold, etc.)
This will keep the formatting on the paragraph (indents, header type, etc.) but will just allow you to change the format of the actual text that is highlighted - which is likely all you want.
Hope that works for you!
The highlighted text in the paragraph that you have highlighted past the period id causing this issue. If you want to keep the last sentence highlighted but remove the highlight bullet just remove highlight on the period at the end of the paragraph and the highlighted bullet goes away :)
(If you can) Start from above, add in a new clean bullet point, copy/paste the desired text from the problematic highlighted bullet point, then delete the problematic highlighted bullet point altogether.

Avoid losing format after selecting all text and start typing

We use TinyMCE as the wysiwyg editor for our content builder. You can drag and drop a text module and once you click an edit button an TinyMCE instance will open. This works really well.
Problem is now that the builder is made for designers so a lot of the times you add a text module just for a 1 word heading or other cases where you only have one block. (one h1, one p etc.) You can also see this behavior in the official demos: Just add an lonely h2 heading, select all text and start to write.
Now Tiny MCE has the default behavior that if you select the complete text (which is almost always the case if you for example change an 1 line / word heading) and you start typing you will lose your formats completely. ( in our case: color, font-size, font-weight, line-height etc.)
This makes editing an heading for example really painful. Best workaround so far is to leave 1 character to not lose the format and then delete the character in the end.
I never saw that behavior in other editors so my question is: Is there maybe an easy setting or workaround to avoid this?
If there are situations where you want a root element to be something specific (e.g. <h2>) you can use the forced_root_block setting on that instance of TinyMCE to force a specific element:
https://www.tinymce.com/docs/configure/content-filtering/#forced_root_block
Even if you delete all text the new text will be wrapped with that root element. See this TinyMCE Fiddle for examples:
http://fiddle.tinymce.com/SOfaab
I think this would address your one line issue?

What's my current cursor position?

This is not an Eclipse-programming question, but rather a question about the Eclipse user-interface in general.
I am writing a verilog source-code in an Eclipse text-editor using the simplifIDE plug-in. I want to align my code so that variable names always start at offset 33 (32 spaces from the left margin)
Does Eclipse have an option for displaying the current cursor position in a status bar? I'd even be happy with a keyboard shortcut that would pop the current cursor-position up in an dialog.
In the absence of a solution, I'll set my tabs to 4-spaces, and put the following text at random places in my file:
//..5...9...13..17..21..25..29..33..37..41..45..49..53..57..61..65..69..73..77..81..
Some editors (such as the built in Java editor) display the current insertion point location in the status bar. However, if you use a third-party editor sch as SimplifIDE, you may have to check its own configuration for that option.
If you write your own editor, you could ask the editor to give you the selection provider, as the selection provider can also provide the current insertion point location.
Using Eclipse 3.5 with the SimplifIDE plugin, I am seeing the correct information for the line and column on a status bar on the bottom of the screen with a {line : column} format using either tabs or spaces.
thedeserthorizon, Are you using 3.5 and the version 1.0.26 of Simplifide.
There is a new API in 3.5 which allows you to listen to cursor movements (see this bug). Then, you can ask for the index of the first character in the current line and subtract that from the absolute cursor position. This gives you the offset in characters.
This is not accurate though; if your editor supports real tabs, then you must query the editor for the current line and count characters yourself (where the tab counts as 2..8 character positions).