Auto-Formatting
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- What Is Writer?
- The Writer interface
- Changing Document Views
- Moving Quickly through a Document
- Working with documents
- Working with text
- Selecting Items That Are Not Consecutive
- Selecting a Vertical Block of Text
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
- Finding and Replacing Text and Formatting
- Inserting Special Characters
- Inserting Dashes and Non-breaking Spaces and Hyphens
- Setting Tab Stops and Indents
- Changing the Default Tab stop Interval
- Checking Spelling and Grammar
- Using Built-in Language tools
- Using AutoCorrect
- Using Word Completion
- Using AutoText
- Formatting Text
- Formatting Pages
- Adding Comments and Graphics to a Document
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Creating Indexes and Bibliographies
- Adding Images and Other Graphics
- Adding Tables, Spreadsheets, and Charts
- Adding a Movie or Sound
- Printing
- Using Mail Merge
- Tracking Changes to a Document
- Using Fields
- Linking to another part of a document
- Using Master Documents
- Creating Fill-in Forms
Auto-formatting
You can set Writer to automatically format parts of a document according to the choices made on the Options page of the AutoCorrect dialog (Tools → AutoCorrect Options).
If you notice unexpected formatting changes occurring in your document, this is the first place to look for the cause. |
Some common unwanted or unexpected formatting changes include:
- Horizontal lines. If you type three or more hyphens (---), underscores (___) or equal signs (===) on a line and then press Enter, the paragraph is replaced by a horizontal line as wide as the page. The line is actually the lower border of the preceding paragraph.
- Bulleted and numbered lists. A bulleted list is created when you type a hyphen (-), star (*), or plus sign (+), followed by a space or tab at the beginning of a paragraph. A numbered list is created when you type a number followed by a period (.), followed by a space or tab at the beginning of a paragraph. Automatic numbering is only applied to paragraphs formatted with the Default, Text body or Text body indent paragraph styles.
To turn auto-formatting on or off, choose Format → AutoCorrect and select or deselect the items on the list.
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