Tom, That was it!
Thank you!! For all those interested, when I changed the Style Setting Box from Text Body to Default Style, then it changed the spacing to single spacing. Thank you again. Best, Charles. On 10/14/15, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
