Re: An Open Office 'newbie' with a question

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>]

At 10:15 10/05/2013 +1000, Paul Collins wrote:
>If only such a forum existed for Mac users with Mac OS X / software 
>problems...

I suspect there are lots.

>I'm using the "Word" component ...

There aint no such beast.  OpenOffice has a word processor called 
Writer: is that what you mean?

>my question to the group is "How do I set the LINE spacing to more 
>than single - e.g. one and a half, two line spacing etc."?

Line spacing is a paragraph property as well as a paragraph style 
property.  Right-click in the paragraph and select Paragraph... or 
Edit Paragraph Style... as appropriate.  On the Indents & Spacing tab 
you can select line spacing as required.  Note that your "one and a 
half" and "two" betray typewriter thinking; as you will see from the 
options available, word processors are much more flexible.

Alternatively, you can right-click and select Line Spacing > 
directly.  This modifies the paragraph property, not the paragraph 
style property.

Er, "line spacing" is an entry in the help text in my copy; is it 
missing from yours?

>... I find the "Excel" component very useful.

Another non-existent beast.  OpenOffice's spreadsheet component is called Calc.

>P. S.  As a non American, I am fascinated with the inclusion of 
>"Apache" in the software suite's title.  Does hold any particular connotations?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation#History .

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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