Mixed paragraph borders

Bhikkhu Pesala · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: Mixed paragraph borders

I'm trying to produce a callout paragraph with a grey background, black 1 point lines top and bottom and 0.1" spacing to contents left and right. I am having trouble with the borders. When I change the top and bottom borders, the left and right borders change; and vice versa.

What I want is a combination of the first and second paragraphs illustrated below:

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Westland · Super User Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 562

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Tested with Paragraphs. No problem either.

Its a little trickier. When I create the left and right borders, OOo changes the colour of the top and bottom borders. I insist until getting results !
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Warrick Nelson · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject:

Create a frame the size you need, add the top and bottom borders and background as needed.

Paste text into the frame, then use format paragraph to indent left and right borders the amount needed - Indent before and after text = left and right indents.

Bhikkhu Pesala · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject:

Open Office doesn't respond to voice commands yet.
There should be a systematic step-by-step method to get any desired result if it is possible, preferably the shortest possible route.

I don't find that it works as expected. Definitely there is a bug with the latest version. In this screenshot you can see that I selected left and right user-defined borders, white, hairline, but look at "spacing to contents." The right border is greyed out. When I click on OK with this setting, the top and bottom 1 pt black borders disappear.

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Bhikkhu Pesala · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject:

Warrick Nelson · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject:

Select all four borders, then untick the Synchronise box.

Now you can select borders individually and change their settings. I had some trouble getting the options to become available, but clicking on the next border made the previous one's options available. The last I got to by exiting the Format screen and going back into it.

I see that this also changes the amount of grey background space between the border and the text. Neat - I've always done this sort of effect in Frames.

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Bhikkhu Pesala · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject:

Here is the step-by-step method:

Format paragraph
Indents and spacing if you wish
Background, grey or whatever
Borders set top and bottom borders only
Line style, weight, and colour
Synchronised, set desired spacing to contents
OK
Format paragraph again
Synchronise off, set desired spacing for left and right borders
User-defined borders left and right, colour same as background, same width and style
OK

Then, open the style list (F11), create a new style from the selection, and you are ready to apply the new callout style to subsequent paragraphs.

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