[Techtalk] OpenOffice Text Alignment

[Noir]

 --- Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote: 
> 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.

Here's the complete solution:

First put the text in a table. Insert > Table or
Insert > Frame. Then write the text within the table
or frame. Then select the text (CTRL-A) and right
click your mouse and select "Edit Paragraph Style" >
"Position" > "Rotating/ Scaling".

Regards,
Noir.


	
	
		
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