Difference between revisions of "Documentation/OOo3 User Guides/Writer Guide/Format paragraphs"

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You can apply many formats to paragraphs using the buttons on the Formatting toolbar. The Formatting toolbar is shown below as a floating toolbar, customized to show only the buttons for paragraph formatting.

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Formatting toolbar, showing icons for character formatting.

Below are examples of the different alignment options for text.

Text alignment options.

The horizontal ruler shows both the default tab stops and any that you have defined. To set the measurement unit and the spacing of default tab stops, go to Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Writer > General.

You can also set or change the measurement unit by right-clicking on the ruler to open a list of units, as shown below. Click on one of them to change the ruler to that unit.

Ruler showing default tab stops.

Double-click on a part of the ruler that is not between the left and right indent icons to open the Indents & Spacing page of the Paragraph dialog. To fine-tune tab stop settings, double-click anywhere between the left and right indent icons on the ruler itself to open the Tabs page of the Paragraph dialog, where you can fine-tune tab stop settings.

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Changing the default tab stops interval

Using tabs to space out material on a page is not recommended (depending on what you are trying to accomplish, a borderless table is usually a better choice), but if you do use tabs, do not use the default tabs set in Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Writer > General; instead, define your own tab settings, as described in this section.

If you use the default tab interval and then send the document to someone else who has chosen a different default tab interval, tabbed material will change to use the other person’s tab settings. This may cause a major formatting problem, as illustrated below.

Default tab settings might be different