Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 14516
Text Left/Right alignment in a single Paragraph
Last modified: 2009-06-18 10:02:52 UTC
Hey marketeers! You now seriously have an argument to pull WP users over to OpenOffice or StarOffice! By accident, I found out that a feature - to my knowlegde only found on Wordperfect - is also present on OOo: Set a paragraph to right border alignment, type some text, enter TAB and then some more text. It looks like this: TEXTLEFT TEXTRIGHT In WP, this is done by entering a right-align text code after the first word. A Valuable feature for titles/headings on documents. Until now, to facilitate this feature on a couple of word processors, one must specify a right-align TAB position on the right border of the page. Besides that this is not so simple, such a TAB remains fixed, also when the page border changes. To conclude: Until now, I still have being uses WP. From now on, this is past...
I was going to add this to
I was going to note this for an office suite comparison. But I can do this in MS Word 2000, so it is not a special feature of OpenOffice.org. Perhaps if we know what office suites do not have this feature, if it is important to WP users.
Hm, I have been checking again how I can do this in MS-Word without the aid of a two column table. But I don't find a way to do it. When MS-Word can do this in a simple manner, why doesn't OOo export a line like next in the correct MS-Word format? TEXTLEFT <TAB> TEXTRIGHT is read by MS-Word as: TEXTLEFT <TAB> TEXTRIGHT For your information: The oncoming OOo 2.0 (build 680) calls this TAB-behaviour "Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 tabstop formatting" (options menu->Text Document->Compatibility). This suggests that the OOo-team is going to regard this TAB-formatting as non-standard (which is, precisely spoken, correct, keeping right2left written languages in mind).
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Using tabs is the right way to do so. Closing as invalid.
Closing