Hi :) Chapter 3 of the "Getting Started Guide", the chapter about "Styles and Templates". In MS Office their equivalent can often cause problems but in LibreOffice the system is different and makes it MUCH easier to produce much higher quality documents with much less effort. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
At the moment it sounds like you are formatting directly inside the content of the document. For the most part, most of the document probably could do with looking consistent and many of your headings and so on also being consistent with each other. Future documents may well need to have the same levels of consistency. At the moment you are maybe trying to remember adn struggle a bit to try to force it all to behave. Using styles, even a tiny bit, can drastically reduce the amount of direct formatting you need to do and that can save quite a bit of time. Each time you have to reach for the mouse to apply formatting it reduces your productivity. Being able to keep yoru hands on the keyboard and use simple keyboard combinations such as; Ctrl B to switch "bold" on/off and Ctrl I to switch "Italics" on/off and Ctrl U to switch "Underline" on/off along with Ctrl x to cut (x looks a little like a pair of scissors) Ctrl c to copy Ctrl v to paste (v looks a bit like a downwards arrow) and of course Ctrl left/right arrows to skip a word at a time All combine to make your typing much faster and with less need to break your concentration. Touch-typing courses often suggest that it's better to leave all the formatting until after a significant amount of a document has been typed. This can work quite well wrt headings but it helps to be able to apply emphasis without hunting for the mouse and then repositioning your fingers again afterwards. To open Styles just press F11, Then look up beside where you would normal set your font to see the name of the style you are using in the body of the contents: hopefully either "Text body" or "Default" and right-click on the appropriate one in the styles pop-up dialogue-box to modify it. I hope this helps! Regards from Tom :) On 15 October 2015 at 00:20, Gabriele Ponzo <[email protected]> wrote: > I couldn't catch exactly what are you trying to do. > > Did you mean the vertical spacing among lines or the horizontal among > characters? > > If you started with "plain text" why doors it have such a (double?) > spacing? > > What font are you using? > Il 15/ott/2015 00:29, "charles meyer" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > > Hi Folks, > > > > In Libre Writer 4.3.5.2, I wanted to change the plain text to single > > spacing for all lines of text in all paragraphs. I highlighted all the > > lines and then I followed both of these suggestions but it still > > appears double-spaced although it says it's single spaced but isn't > > > > How do I truly secure single spacing? > > > > 1. Select the paragraph and then go to Format, Paragraph, Indents & > > Spacing tab, Line Spacing . > > > > 2. Right click to open the context menu > Line Spacing. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Charles. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
