Unlike other tabs, the bar tab is added to the text as soon as you click the ruler. It inserts a vertical bar at the tab position. See Use decimal tabs to line up numbers with decimal points.Ī Bar tab stop doesn't position text. Without regard to the number of digits, the decimal point remains in the same position. As you type, the text fills toward the left.Ī Decimal tab stop aligns numbers around a decimal point.
As you type, the text centers on this position.Ī Right tab stop sets the right end of the text line. As you type, the text fills toward the right.Ī Center tab stop sets the position at the middle of the text line. Select Left Tab at the left end of the horizontal ruler to change it to the type of tab you want.Ī Left tab stop sets the left end of the text line. I haven't tried that, but it might be worth a try.Ģ010_Spring_Syllabus_table.odt (19.If you don't see the ruler at the top of your document, go to View > Ruler to display it. I used a bunch of paragraph styles to do the outline layout, but it might be possible to avoid that and use a single list style. With a table, the interior columns can maintain alignment independent of what happens in the columns to the left. Writer tabs are relative to the left margin (including any indent) of the paragraph, so if you use an outline-type layout with different indents for different levels, but need a constant alignment for an interior tab stop, each level's tab stops have to be adjusted manually for the left-side indents. One problem the table avoids that gets messy with tab stops is consistent positioning of interior alignments. Using a table requires extra styles for each column that uses a different alignment, and having the merged cells for the full-width chapter items makes it impossible to select a specific column. I think I like working with the table better, but, frankly, it's not a clear win-both involve a lot of fiddling, and both would be difficult for a new user to "figure out." Given the challenge it has been for me just to be clear about what I am trying to do (my fault, no one else's), it is truly frightening that I teach some of America's youth I'll just have to design a set of "standard" tables to get the overall formatting I want.) (The tables idea in one of the former replies will work, I think. I have the sense that I should have been able to figure this out myself, but I spent some time fiddling around in OOo Writer and could not get anything to work.
#Set right tab stop at right margin in word 2013 pdf
pdf that comes up, the paragraph beginning "There's No Reason for It" shows the kind of spacing I use.
The forum doesn't seem to support an actual image, but if you're sufficiently masochistic, you can see an example of the kind of paragraph I'm talking about by going to and clicking on "Syllabus" under the Federal Courts heading. (In different situations I may want to have leading dots, but I assume I can just do that in creating the particular tab stop.)ģ) No, the page numbers do not need to wrap. Here are the answers:ġ) Yes, the text is supposed to be continuous from one line to the next.Ģ) The characters between "Third line" and "Pages" are just to force the correct visual image. I apologize for the added confusion, but I am very grateful for your persistence. Odd_paragraph_shape_sample.odt (15.02 KiB) Downloaded 507 times
Here are the questions that still are not clear to me:ġ) Is the text at the left, your "First line/Second line/Third line" supposed to be continuous text, that is wrapped by a margin into the narrow left-hand column, or are those separate items that you want to appear on separate lines?Ģ) Are the dots or underlines between "Third line" and "Pages" supposed to represent leader dots that should appear in the final document, or are they just there to force the forum to display the layout you want?ģ) Are the "Pages" supposed to represent a list of page numbers? If so, how long is the list? Does it also need to wrap if the list is longer than the margins?Īnyway, here are some ideas in a sample document: That's not your fault, it's a problem with using the forum's plain text to describe some subtle formatting issues. The problem I'm having is that your description and pictures are ambiguous in critical areas.
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