Formatting Lines

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Impress Guide

Chapter 6: Formatting Graphic Objects

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• Formatting Objects
• Formatting Lines
  • General Line Settings
  • Creating Line Styles
  • Creating Arrow Styles
  • Line Shadow
• Formatting the Fill Area
  • Uniform Color
  • Fill with a Gradient
  • Fill with a Line Pattern (Hatching)
  • Fill with an Image
  • Using the Area Dialog
• Creating New Area Fills
  • Adding Custom Colors
  • Creating Gradients
  • Creating Hatching Patterns
  • Working with Bitmap Fills
    • Creating and Importing Bitmaps
  • Formatting Shadows
  • Transparency Formatting
  • Advanced Gradient Controls
• Formatting Text
  • Text Animation
• Formatting Connectors
• Working with Graphics Styles
  • Linked Graphic Styles
  • Creating Graphics Styles
    • Creating a New Graphic Style Using the Style Dialog
    • Creating a New Graphics Style from a Selection
  • Modifying a Graphics Style
    • Updating a Graphic Style from a Selection
  • Applying Graphics Styles
  • Deleting Graphics Styles
  • Assigning Styles to Shortcut Keys

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Formatting Lines

In Apache OpenOffice, the term line refers to both a freestanding segment and the outer edge of a shape. In most cases, the properties of the line you can modify are its style (solid, dashed, invisible, and so on), its width, and its color. All these options can be applied with a few clicks of the mouse. Select the line you need to format and then use the controls on the Properties deck of the Sidebar, like that shown in Figure 88, or the Line and Filling toolbar to select your desired options.

Figure 88: (Top) The Line pane of the Sidebar's Properties deck
 (Bottom) Line and Filling toolbar with common line options highlighted

If you need to fine-tune the appearance of a line, choose Format → Line from the menu bar, or the More Options button at the top right of the Line pane of the Sidebar, or right-click on the line and select Line from the pop-up menu, or select the Line icon from the Line and Filling toolbar. These methods open the Line dialog shown in Figure 89, where you can set all the properties of the line at once.

The dialog consists of four tabs: Line, Shadow, Line Styles, and Arrow Styles.