[Techtalk] OpenOffice Text Alignment

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 5:06 pm, Noir wrote:
> I been trying to align horizontal texts into vertical
> ones in Oo Word (1.1.1). For example, "abc" should
> look like
> 
> "a
> b
> c"
> 
> I'm not using any table or anything; just want some
> texts at the bottom of my document to be vertically
> aligned & juxtaposed, i.e.
> 
> "a     "a
> b      b   
> c"     c"
> 
> Google ("text alignment openoffice") told me to go to
> format>page>page & that there should be alignment. But
> there's nothing like that. Maybe I am Googling with
> the wrong string?
> 

That only sets up page alignment: right, left, center, or justified.
Usually using a table is the best way to do this. Another way is to Insert -> 
Frame, enter your text, then size the frame one letter wide. This will force 
them into a vertical line, and you can string as many frames side-by-side as 
you want.

Carla

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