Openoffice-- three stars replaced by unerasable hor. line
unruh
line by itself folllowed by a blank line by a horizontal line which is
unerasable. Nothing I do gets rid of it.
a) HOw can I stop openoffice from doing this "AutoFormat" ( On the
Edit-> undo line it is called an AutoFormat as I discovered after experiments
after the first few times it happened) . I can do * * * instead of ***
but that is not what I want.
I can find nowhere where openoffice is told to interpret *** as "insert
an unerasable horizontal line."
b)How do I erase that horizontal line that got inserted without starting
all over?
When I copy and past text with that horizontal line at the bottom, if I
include any part of the last line of text, the horizontal line comes
along. If I skip the last line of text entirely, it does not. This seems
a stupid way for copy/paste to work.
These problems are there in ooffice 3.1.1-2.7mdv
Please do not tell me to upgrade unless you know that this bug is not
there in the upgraded version.
I have gotten tired of wasting time upgrading only to find that nothing
has changed.
Dave Gibson
[ Followup-To set to alt.os.linux ]
> Using Openoffice I am finding that the system replaces three (or more)
> stars on a line by itself folllowed by a blank line by a horizontal
> line which is unerasable. Nothing I do gets rid of it.
This also happens with three or more dashes, underscores, equals signs,
tildes and hashes. The last two, along with asterisks, appear to be
undocumented.
> a) HOw can I stop openoffice from doing this "AutoFormat" ( On the
> Edit-> undo line it is called an AutoFormat as I discovered after
> experiments after the first few times it happened) . I can do * * *
> instead of *** but that is not what I want.
> I can find nowhere where openoffice is told to interpret *** as "insert
> an unerasable horizontal line."
Open the AutoCorrect Options dialog (via the "AutoCorrect Options..."
entry in the Tools menu), select the Options tab and clear the mark
from the "Apply border" setting.
> b)How do I erase that horizontal line that got inserted without starting
> all over?
Position the cursor on (i.e. just above) the line and type Ctrl + M.
> When I copy and past text with that horizontal line at the bottom, if I
> include any part of the last line of text, the horizontal line comes
> along. If I skip the last line of text entirely, it does not. This seems
> a stupid way for copy/paste to work.
The on-line help (enter "separator lines;AutoFormat function" in the
index) describes the line as the lower border of the preceding paragraph.