On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 17:48 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > The subject says it all. How do I stop OfficeOffice Writer from > continually re-formatting what I am working on. I am writing numbered > paragraphs, but I do NOT want OO to auto-number them. An answer for controlling that was answered by Rick (deselect the autoformat while typing). However, if you like other autoformatting options, and just want to kill of that one, you can do so through the "AutoCorrect" control panel called up through the "Tools" menu. Untick its "Apply numbering - symbol" option. > Moreover I do NOT want OO to suddenly auto-indent a paragraph I have > just finished writing. Not a behaviour that I've seen. What "style" is being applied to what you're typing? Sounds like you're still typing a list, rather than a paragraph, and you'd manually erased the number. > For example, I end the paragraph, hit 'Return' twice to create a line > space between the end of the paragraph and the start of the next one, > and when I hit the *second* return, the first paragraph self-indents a > tab space....which is just what I do NOT want. For what it's worth, that's not how you do paragraphs (a word processor is not an electric typewriter). You end a paragraph, and start another one, with *one* hit of the return key. If you hit it twice, you've put a blank paragraph between paragraphs, it's illogical, and you end up with bad formatting issues. If you want more spacing between paragraphs, adjust the styling of how paragraphs are formatted (think carefully about whether you want more space above or below them, or both, considering that other things get placed between them - tables, headings, etc.). You'll get consistent results, that way, and automatically, especially when things cross over page breaks. Make sure that the default style being applied to your text is the "text body" rather than "default". And for those occasions where you want line breaks instead of paragraph breaks, like in short verses of prose, type SHIFT + CARRIAGE RETURN. Once you stop expecting a word processor to act like a typewriter, you begin to get the results that you want. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
