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. Moreover I do NOT > want OO to suddenly auto-indent a paragraph I have just finished > writing. 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. > > I have tried Format Paragraph with everything set a '0'..and named that > as the default.but that does not help. So where do I turn off that > behaviour? > > This damn auto-indenting is about to cause me to auto-explode. > > Geoff > You will have to learn about styles. Here are two links. OpenOffice Styles: What, Why, and How to Use Them http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/03/openoffice_styl.html Welcome to OpenOffice.org Support http://support.openoffice.org/index.html Follow the link to the Documentation Project.
