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Meow the Catz
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 Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: Inside margin for text blocks |
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Hi,
I have created a text bloc. However I do not want the text to start just at the beginning of the block, I would like an inside margin. Like the page margins.
How can I do that?
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Bhikkhu Pesala
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:13 am Post subject: |
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Double-click on the frame and change the borders — spacing to contents.
Spacing outside the borders is on the Wrap tab of the same dialogue.
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foxcole
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:22 am Post subject: Re: Inside margin for text blocks |
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| Meow the Catz wrote: | I have created a text bloc. However I do not want the text to start just at the beginning of the block, I would like an inside margin. Like the page margins.
How can I do that? |
You would do that by applying an indent paragraph style. I believe there's one already built in, but if you need different text styles than the default you can very easily create your own.
Please have a look at the chapters on styles in the Writer guide, which you can find here:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html
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Meow the Catz
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Bhikkhu Pesala wrote: | Double-click on the frame and change the borders — spacing to contents.
Spacing outside the borders is on the Wrap tab of the same dialogue. |
So it is not possible to do that if we do not want our text object to have any visible border ?
| foxcole wrote: | You would do that by applying an indent paragraph style. I believe there's one already built in, but if you need different text styles than the default you can very easily create your own.
Please have a look at the chapters on styles in the Writer guide, which you can find here:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html |
Thanks it works fine, now I have to figure out how to add a top margin, I have figured out only how to do left and right margins  |
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Bhikkhu Pesala
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| Meow the Catz wrote: | | So it is not possible to do that if we do not want our text object to have any visible border ? |
If you have no border, then why not use text wrap to get the spacing you want?
You can use spacing above and below the fist and last paragraphs to get spacing at top and bottom of the frame.
Otherwise, use a white border, and set the distance to text from that.
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