Starting documents on top of each page

[Orjan Henningson <jo...@gmail.com>]

How do I set Open Office so each first line on a new page will start at the
top, regardless of a double space at the end of previous page?  I used
WorkPerfect in the 90's and it did it automatically!  That was a few years
ago!

Re: Starting documents on top of each page

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

At 13:30 11/01/2017 -0700, Orjan Henningson wrote:
>How do I set Open Office so each first line on a new page will start 
>at the top, regardless of a double space at the end of previous 
>page? I used Wor[d]Perfect in the 90's and it did it automatically! 
>That was a few years ago!

Remember that, if you prefer another product - such as Word Perfect - 
you are very welcome to use it. You talk about working with software 
two decades ago, but it seems your thinking may be even older - as if 
you are using a typewriter.

What exactly do you mean by "a double space"? If your paragraph or 
paragraph style formatting has "Line spacing" set to Double or 
something similar, you will see extra spacing between lines. But if a 
paragraph breaks naturally across pages and the last line on the 
first page happens to occur very close to the bottom, there will be 
no extra spacing before the first line on the new page. This will be 
what you want and expect, so cannot be what you mean.

The only other possibility is paragraph spacing. But there is no such 
thing as "double spacing" of paragraphs. Perhaps what you are doing 
is to insert an empty paragraph between each of your actual text 
paragraphs. If you insert such empty paragraphs, they will indeed 
show as extra paragraph spacing in your document. Why else would you 
insert them? And if one of your empty paragraphs happens to occur at 
the top of a new page, OpenOffice will respect your choice and show 
the spacing there. If Word Perfect did something clever for you and 
countermanded your request for vertical space here, it was 
unfortunately kowtowing to typewriter users unwilling to learn the 
ways of word processors.

As I say, the use of empty paragraphs for vertical spacing went out - 
or should have done - with typewriters. Instead, go to Format | 
Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing | Spacing (or right-click | 
Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing | Spacing). Choose appropriate 
non-zero values for "Above paragraph" or "Below paragraph" or both. 
Better still, go to right-click | Edit Paragraph Style... | Indents & 
Spacing | Spacing and make similar changes instead to the paragraph 
style. Spacing above or below paragraphs (or both) set in this 
fashion will not show up unnecessarily at the bottom of a page or at 
the top of a new one if a paragraph break happens to coincide with 
the page break.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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